cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Appearance of Negative Differential Conductivity in Graphene Nanoribbons at High-Harmonics
Creators: name: Rabiu, M.
name: Mensah, S. Y.
name: Abukari, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study current dynamics of graphene nanoribbons subject to bias dc and ac driven fields. We showed that graphene nanoribbons exhibit negative high-harmonic differential conductivity. Negative differential conductivity appears when bias electric filed is in the neighborhood of applied ac filed amplitude. We also observe both even and odd high-harmonic negative differential conductivity at wave mixing of two commensurate frequencies. The even harmonics are more pronounced than the odd harmonics. A possible use of the present method for generating terahertz frequencies at even harmonics in graphene is suggested.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Caring for People on the Margins: An Institutional Ethnographic Exploration of Community Palliative Care Work for People who are Precariously Housed
Creators: name: Petruik, Courtney Rae
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: institutional ethnography
subject: palliative care
subject: homelessness
subject: houselessness
subject: end-of-life care
subject: Public and Social Welfare
subject: Social Structure and Development

description: People experiencing homelessness have more barriers accessing healthcare than the general population. Challenges are worsened when people become ill and require end-of-life care (EOLC). Some barriers to EOLC for this population include discrimination, service providers who lack knowledge about homelessness, and fewer opportunities to voice care preferences. As part of a developing palliative equity movement, small teams have been created to provide better EOLC for people experiencing homelessness. While much research explores homelessness and healthcare, to date, none investigates the social organization of these teams amidst the mainstream system. This research addresses this gap by exploring how one of these small teams, the Community Allied Mobile Palliative Partnership (CAMPP), interacts with clients, structures their work, hooks into the mainstream healthcare system, and is institutionally accountable to a broader philanthropic funding structure in Calgary, Canada. This project uses institutional ethnography (IE) as its guiding mode of inquiry. From the standpoint of CAMPP clients, IE promotes understanding of how this team’s work is put together, produced, legitimized, and challenged while operating in the interstices of the mainstream healthcare system. With over 100 hours of observations, document reviews, and 21 client and service provider interviews, this research recasts the reader’s view from taken for granted medical models of palliative care toward the social realities of people at society’s margins and how the CAMPP team embeds these needs into their care model. Grounded in client accounts, this project illustrates how the mainstream system is structured to create challenges for people facing economic marginalization warranting a service like the CAMPP team. Paying close attention to language, this study shows how CAMPP is shaped by and reshapes the palliative care discourse to include social factors, mobilizing the widely recognized model of “harm reduction”. Lastly, this project describes how the CAMPP team is funded and their perceptions of the sustainability of their program. This study has implications for policymakers, community programs, researchers, and people experiencing homelessness by making visible how teams like CAMPP provide care “at the margins” of dissolution while caring for people “at the margins” of society.
From closed to open 1D Anderson model: Transport versus spectral statistics
Creators: name: Sorathia, S.
name: Izrailev, F. M.
name: Zelevinsky, V. G.
name: Celardo, G. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the phenomenological expression for the level spacing distribution with only one parameter, $0 \leq β\leq \infty$, covering all regimes of chaos and complexity in a quantum system, we show that transport properties of the one-dimensional Anderson model of finite size can be expressed in terms of this parameter. Specifically, we demonstrate a strictly linear relation between $β$ and the normalized localization length for the whole transition from strongly localized to extended states. This result allows one to describe all transport properties in the open system entirely in terms of the parameter $β$ and strength of coupling to continuum. For non-perfect coupling, our data show a quite unusual interplay between the degree of internal chaos defined by $β$, and degree of openness of the model. The results can be experimentally tested in single-mode waveguides with either bulk or surface disorder.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, fully revised version accepted for publication in PRE
Prefrontal endocannabinoid signaling mediates neuroendocrine and behavioral coping responses to stress
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Ryan Joseph
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Major depression is a heterogeneous disease often precipitated by dysfunction within the neuroendocrine stress circuitry, leading to profound deficits in prefrontocortical function. The endocannabinoid system has recently emerged as a vital component of the stress response; however, the mechanisms by which endocannabinoid signaling in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) modulates neuroendocrine and behavioral responses to stress has yet to be elucidated. In Chapter 2, genetic deletion of the CB₁ receptor prolonged corticosterone secretion following cessation of stress, which was recapitulated by CB₁ receptor antagonism within the medial PFC. Acute stress produced a delayed elevation in 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) content in the medial PFC that was reversed by glucocorticoid receptor antagonism. Immunohistochemical and electrophysiological data demonstrated the presence of CB₁ receptors in inhibitory-type terminals impinging upon principal neurons within layer V of the medial PFC. Furthermore, application of corticosterone to prefrontocortical slices suppressed γ-aminobutyric acid release onto layer V principal neurons, which was prevented by CB₁ receptor antagonism. Hence, the ability of glucocorticoids to terminate HPA axis activity is mediated by local recruitment of 2-AG in the medial PFC. In Chapter 3, forced swim stress rapidly suppressed anandamide (AEA) content in the medial PFC. Local inhibition of AEA hydrolysis decreased passive coping and increased active coping strategies in the forced swim test (FST) in a CB₁ receptor-dependent and serotonin-mediated manner. Furthermore, local inhibition of AEA hydrolysis increased the firing rate of serotonin neurons, suggesting that prefrontocortical AEA signaling modulates stress coping behaviors via regulation of serotonergic neurotransmission. In Chapter 4, rats exposed to chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) displayed increased CB₁ receptor binding specifically within the ventromedial PFC. CUS exposure increased passive coping and decreased active coping strategies in the FST, which was further augmented by ventromedial PFC CB₁ receptor blockade. Thus, the increase in CB₁ receptor binding observed in the ventromedial PFC of CUS-exposed rodents serves a compensatory role that maintains proactive coping strategies under chronically stressful conditions. Collectively, this body of research indicates that prefrontocortical endocannabinoid signaling is a critical mediator of neuroendocrine and behavioral stress responses and may represent an appealing target for future therapeutic strategies aimed at combating stress-related disorders.
Weaving the Scattered: Exploring Bricolage and Poetic Expression in iPhone Filmmaking
Creators: name: Shah, Shahaan Ahmed
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: iPhone filmmaking
subject: mobile cinema
subject: bricolage
subject: poetic documentary method
subject: Cinema
subject: Education--Art
subject: Fine Arts

description: "Weaving the Scattered: Exploring Bricolage and Poetic Expression in iPhone Filmmaking" is a journey into the realm of innovative filmmaking. This study delves into the creative potential of iPhone filming, employing techniques that break away from traditional linear storytelling. Central to the exploration is the method of bricolage, weaving together fragmented visuals to construct a unique narrative tapestry. This approach is characterized by the integration of chance aesthetics, where imperfections and spontaneity play a pivotal role in shaping the storytelling process. The result is a poetic and emotionally resonant portrayal of real-life experiences, expanding the horizons of traditional documentary filmmaking. This thesis serves as a testament to the transformative power of adaptable and accessible platforms in the world of visual storytelling.
“We’re all still in it, and we’re all still there . . . supporting each other.” Examining Critical Care nurses’ descriptions of social support, burnout, and recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Creators: name: Fillion, Chantal
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: Burnout
subject: Recovery
subject: Healthcare
subject: Critical Care
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Social Support
subject: Felt Understanding
subject: Reflexive Thematic Analysis
subject: Social Ecological Model
subject: Mental Health

description: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced complex challenges for Critical Care (CC) nurses, including unsustainable workloads, heightened exposure to secondary trauma, unpredictable work environments, and other significant personal and professional challenges. Rates of burnout and job attrition have reached concerning heights, indicating a need for change in our healthcare system. Social bonds are crucial for wellbeing and survival and can be deepened or compromised in the high-stress environments and changing social landscapes which have resulted from the pandemic. The following research question guided this research: how did CC nurses describe social support as helping or hindering to burnout and recovery while working the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic? I conducted this study as a secondary analysis of interviews investigating what helped and hindered CC nurses’ experiences of burnout and recovery during the pandemic. Using reflexive thematic analysis (RTA), I constructed five main themes (institutional neglect, opposition from the public, strained personal relationships, empathetic bonding among CC nurses, and accessing effective professional support). These themes enhance our understanding of the complexity of CC nurses’ experiences and elucidate the role of social support. In connection with the key findings from this study, I identified several considerations for preventing and mitigating burnout and promoting recovery within a social ecological framework.
Enabling Structural Proteomics with High Efficiency Protein Enrichment Technology
Creators: name: Raval, Shaunak
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Affinity Purification
subject: Mass Spectrometry
subject: Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange
subject: Bioanalytical Chemistry
subject: Chemistry--Analytical
subject: Biochemistry

description: The functional state of proteins is inherently flexible, which allows them to interact with other biomolecules, including other proteins, to carry out many of their cellular functions. Understanding the structural dynamics of proteins and their network of associations is key to understanding their role in biology. Proteomics, the collection of mass spectrometry (MS)-based techniques to study proteins, provides a broad view of the organization of protein structure, from an individual dynamic unit to large-scale multiprotein assemblies, enabled by the application of labelling chemistries. This dissertation presents novel analytical workflows and data analysis routines to overcome current challenges in proteomics methods for the identification of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and the study of protein conformation and dynamics. Affinity purification followed by mass spectrometry (AP-MS) is a prominent approach in the study of PPIs. However, the conventional workflow suffers from low enrichment efficiencies. I present and evaluate a fluidic platform that captures and processes ultralow nanoliter quantities of magnetic particles, simultaneously increasing the efficiency of PPI detection and strongly suppressing non-specific binding. It enables the study of protein conformational analysis directly from cells as I demonstrate first by describing new concepts in data analysis for hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HX-MS) and second by applying them to proteins isolated directly from cells.
Finanzjournalismus im Spannungsfeld von Fachwissen, Stories und Finanzliteralität [veraltete Auflage]
Creators: name: Whitehouse, Marlies
name: b-public AG
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2019
Subjects: Finanzjournalismus
Finanzliteralität
Schreiben
070: Nachrichtenmedien, Journalismus und Verlagswesen

description: Fachwissen, Stories und Finanzliteralität – Wie hängen sie zusammen und was bedeuten sie für Gesellschaft und Finanzjournalisten? Für die vorliegende Studie wurden Finanzjournalisten auf dem Platz Zürich dazu befragt. Die Ergebnisse liefern einerseits den Verantwortlichen von Fachmedien Anhaltspunkte für mögliche Reflexion, Strategien und Massnahmen in der Praxis. Die Resultate zeigen Bildungsinstitutionen anderseits, was es noch braucht, damit eine breite Leserschaft die Sprache der Zahlen versteht.
Tough Talks: An Action-Project Method Analysis of Parent-Child Conversations about Military Life
Creators: name: Bonneville, Dominique Ashley
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Military
subject: Families
subject: Parent
subject: Child
subject: Communication
subject: Action-Project
subject: Deployment
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: History--Military

description: Military service can have significant impacts on the entire family system, including frequent relocations, parental deployments, and constant adjustments in family dynamics and support networks. Civilian spouses often bear the burden of managing childcare, family matters, and household responsibilities during deployments. Military-connected children face unique circumstances that can impact their development and social-emotional wellbeing. The functioning and wellbeing of military spouses and their children are largely interconnected, and communication between spouses and their children can play a vital role in shaping children’s ability to cope with and understand military life. Nonetheless, there is relatively little previous research on this topic. In this study, I utilized the action-project method (A-PM) to explore the following question “How do military spouses communicate with their middle school-aged children about the realities of military life?” I conducted video-assisted qualitative interviews with five military spouses and their children from across Canada. A consensus-based qualitative analysis grounded within Contextual Action Theory revealed several projects, actions, and supplementary themes throughout within- and cross-case analyses. Common projects across the parent-child dyads included: (a) fostering closeness and connection within the family; (b) creating shared understandings of military life; and (c) imagining and planning for the future related to relocation and deployment. Additionally, the cross-case analysis revealed nine common patterns of actions that families engaged in as they navigated conversations about military life. Finally, five salient supplementary themes emerged from the cross-case analysis. These findings provide insight into how families navigate unique stressors, make sense of their shared experiences, and bring forth innovative coping strategies. Considerations for those engaging in counselling work alongside military families are discussed.
Enhanced X-Ray Angular Dispersion and X-ray Spectrographs with Resolving Power Beyond 10$^{8}$
Creators: name: Shvyd'ko, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectrograph is an optical device that is used to disperse photons of different energies $E$ into distinct directions and space locations, and to take a snapshot of the whole spectrum of photon energies with a spatially sensitive photon detector. Substantial advantage of a spectrograph over an ordinary spectral analyzer, is its ability to deal with many photon energies simultaneously, thus reducing exposure time per spectrum considerably. To realize a spectrograph, dispersing elements with large angular dispersion rate are required. Here we show, on the example of CDW x-ray optics [1-3], that multi-crystal arrangements may feature cumulative angular dispersion rates more than an order of magnitude larger than those attainable in single Bragg reflections. This makes, first, hard x-ray spectrographs feasible, and, secondly, a resolving power beyond $E/ΔE \gtrsim 10^{8}$ achievable.
Finanzjournalismus im Spannungsfeld von Fachwissen, Stories und Finanzliteralität
Creators: name: Whitehouse, Marlies
name: b-public AG
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2019
Subjects: Finanzjournalismus
Finanzliteralität
Schreiben
070: Nachrichtenmedien, Journalismus und Verlagswesen

description: Fachwissen, Stories und Finanzliteralität – Wie hängen sie zusammen und was bedeuten sie für Gesellschaft und Finanzjournalisten? Für die vorliegende Studie wurden Finanzjournalisten auf dem Platz Zürich dazu befragt. Die Ergebnisse liefern einerseits den Verantwortlichen von Fachmedien Anhaltspunkte für mögliche Reflexion, Strategien und Massnahmen in der Praxis. Die Resultate zeigen Bildungsinstitutionen anderseits, was es noch braucht, damit eine breite Leserschaft die Sprache der Zahlen versteht.
From Texts to Local Tradition: A Study of Sthalapurāṇas in Konkan
Creators: name: Kale, Durga
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: vernacular religion
subject: landscape
subject: narrative
subject: South Asia
subject: Education--Sociology of
subject: Education--Religious
subject: Literature--Asian
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Purāṇa genre of South-Asian texts with regional narratives, often transcend the boundaries of religious and social commentary. On these lines, people in Western India consider the site-specific texts or the Sthalapurāṇas to be the manuals of socio-religious commentary. Some of the literary narratives extend into the social relations and performance of religious practices in public space. The current project aims at querying the agency of the texts in Konkan, the region along the western coast of India. The study examines the network of social and ritual action that gets explained through the medieval Sthalapurāṇa stories as its narrative core. Three texts examined for this thesis describe the region in the modern districts of Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg as a part of the landmass created by a mythological character, Paraśurāma. While the narratives utilize literary strategies from the established templates of the Hindu and Jain texts, this study highlights the metanarratives in the texts that make for a dedicated discussion. An ethnographic study of the oral narratives in the region has been indispensable in mapping the shared religious meanings from the texts tied to the locale. Furthermore, the thesis follows Paraśurāma narrative to explore the relationship between the local landscape and various social groups. This project will highlight the trajectory of narrativization of the landscape from the premodern to modern times. With this inquiry, the project aims to lay bare the claim on the landscape extended through storytelling and oral narratives, which are often examples of curated narratives and selective memorialization. In that sense, the discussion segues into exploring the emotional geographies superimposed on the physical land. Paraśurāma’s role in creation of the land and populating the land with select individuals for the spread of religion, thus becomes the focus of storytelling in Konkan. The tripartite approach to examine the literary, oral, and archaeological data offers a lens to describe the landscape with rich, layered ascribed meanings through the years. This study will offer case-studies from a relatively understudied geographical area.
Tsallis non-extensive statistics, intermittent turbulence, SOC and chaos in the solar plasma. Part two: Solar Flares dynamics
Creators: name: Karakatsanis, L. P.
name: Pavlos, G. P.
name: Xenakis, M. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the second part of this study and similarly with part one, the nonlinear analysis of the solar flares index is embedded in the non-extensive statistical theory of Tsallis [1]. The triplet of Tsallis, as well as the correlation dimension and the Lyapunov exponent spectrum were estimated for the SVD components of the solar flares timeseries. Also the multifractal scaling exponent spectrum, the generalized Renyi dimension spectrum and the spectrum of the structure function exponents were estimated experimentally and theoretically by using the entropy principle included in Tsallis non extensive statistical theory, following Arimitsu and Arimitsu [2]. Our analysis showed clearly the following: a) a phase transition process in the solar flare dynamics from high dimensional non Gaussian SOC state to a low dimensional also non Gaussian chaotic state, b) strong intermittent solar corona turbulence and anomalous (multifractal) diffusion solar corona process, which is strengthened as the solar corona dynamics makes phase transition to low dimensional chaos: c) faithful agreement of Tsallis non equilibrium statistical theory with the experimental estimations of i) non-Gaussian probability distribution function, ii) multifractal scaling exponent spectrum and generalized Renyi dimension spectrum, iii) exponent spectrum of the structure functions estimated for the sunspot index and its underlying non equilibrium solar dynamics. e) The solar flare dynamical profile is revealed similar to the dynamical profile of the solar convection zone as far as the phase transition process from SOC to chaos state. However the solar low corona (solar flare) dynamical characteristics can be clearly discriminated from the dynamical characteristics of the solar convection zone.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures, 1 table. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1201.6498
Triplet-Singlet Extension of the MSSM with a 125 Gev Higgs and Dark Matter
Creators: name: Basak, Tanushree
name: Mohanty, Subhendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the extension of Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model by adding one singlet and one hypercharge zero SU(2) triplet chiral superfield. The triplet sector gives an additional contributions to the scalar masses and we find that the lightest CP-even Higgs boson can have a mass of 119-120 GeV at the tree level, and radiative correction raises the value to 125 GeV. In this model no significant contributions from stop loops is needed to get the required Higgs mass which alleviates the fine tuning problem of fixing the stop mass to a high precision at the GUT scale. In addition this model gives a neutralino dark matter of mass around 100 GeV which is a mixture of Higgsino and Triplino with a dark matter density consistent with WMAP observations. The spin-independent scattering cross-section with nucleons is 10^(-43) cm^2, which makes it consistent with the bounds from direct detection experiments like XENON100 and others.
description: references added, matches the published version in PRD
Auf dem Weg zum agilen Heim : der "Agil-Check" misst die Anpassungsfähigkeit an ein sich veränderndes Umfeld
Creators: name: Wittmann, Frank
name: Sundermann, Larissa M.
Publisher: name: CURAVIVA
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agilität
Agil-Check
Anpassungsfähigkeit
362: Gesundheits- und Sozialdienste

description: Die Managementthemen Agilität, Sinn und Selbstorganisation sind im Gesundheits- und Sozialbereich angekommen und werden über alle Funktionsebenen hinweg diskutiert. Ein Pilot gibt erste Einblicke in den Diskussionsstand in Pflegeheimen und sozialen Institutionen.
Trigonuropoda (Latipilitrigon) Hirschmann 1979
Creators: name: Tang, Jin
name: Zhang, Gongaote
name: Guo, Junqi
name: Luo, Lingxuan
name: Jiang, Jiamei
name: Pan, Hongbo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Trigonuropodidae
Trigonuropoda

description: Trigonuropoda (Latipilitrigon) Hirschmann, 1979
 Trigonuropoda (Latipilitrigon) Hirschmann, 1979 b: 61.
 Trigonuropoda latipilis species group Hirschmann, 1975 d: 55.
 Type species. Trigonuropoda latipilis Hirschmann, 1975 g: 80, by original designation.
 Subgenus diagnosis. Species of the subgenus Latipilitrigon are easy to separate from the other species of Trigonuropoda on the basis of the following combination of characteristics: (1) the inner margin of the marginal shield is undulate, (2) anterior pit is absent on the dorsal idiosoma, and (3) caudal area is elevated from the neighbouring regions of the dorsal shield with 4–6 setae of a different type. The shape of the idiosoma oval, posterior margin rounded. The number of dorsal setae, excluding the marginal setae, is about 40. Varied types of setae, although most often are simple.
 Ornamentation of genital shield foveate or reticulate. Peritreme Mshaped, the anterior loop of the peritreme facing the front part of the idiosoma. Conspicuous characters are Y-shaped first hypostomal h1, usually several times longer than h2. Setae h3 simple, several times longer than h2. Corniculi short, horn-like. Chelicera – the fixed digit is noticeably longer than the movable digit, and the nodus is also visible.
description: Published as part of Tang, Jin, Zhang, Gongaote, Guo, Junqi, Luo, Lingxuan, Jiang, Jiamei & Pan, Hongbo, 2023, A New Species Of Trigonuropoda (Mesostigmata: Uropodina) From Vietnam, pp. 117-126 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (2) on page 120, DOI: 10.17109/AZH.69.2.117.2023http://zoobank.org/585B5C4F-4C16-4F0B-ACE8-EBF7BACDA7C8, http://zenodo.org/record/10272408
Comment on "Quantum phase for an arbitrary system with finite-dimensional Hilbert space"
Creators: name: Hall, Michael J. W.
name: Pegg, David T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A construction of covariant quantum phase observables, for Hamiltonians with a finite number of energy eigenvalues, has been recently given by D. Arsenovic et al. [Phys. Rev. A 85, 044103 (2012)]. For Hamiltonians generating periodic evolution, we show that this construction is just a simple rescaling of the known canonical 'time' or 'age' observable, with the period T rescaled to 2π. Further, for Hamiltonians generating quasiperiodic evolution, we note that the construction leads to a phase observable having several undesirable features, including (i) having a trivially uniform probability density for any state of the system, (ii) not reducing to the periodic case in an appropriate limit, and (iii) not having any clear generalisation to an infinite energy spectrum. In contrast, we note that a covariant time observable has been previously defined for such Hamiltonians, which avoids these features. We also show how this 'quasiperiodic' time observable can be represented as the well-defined limit of a sequence of periodic time observables.
description: 4 pages, accepted version
Exploring Music Beyond the Canon: Radio Orchestras, the CBC and Contemporary Music in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Creators: name: Bailey, Robert Warren
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: CBC Symphony Orchestra
subject: Radio Orchestras
subject: Twentieth-Century Music
subject: CBC Music
subject: Music Broadcasting
subject: Music
subject: Canadian Studies

description: The emergence of broadcast technology in the twentieth century fundamentally changed how people could experience music. Networks across the world assembled orchestras to serve a variety of functions—background music for dramatic presentations, light entertainment and symphonic concerts. Radio emancipated the orchestral concert from the confines of the concert hall, bringing to the masses a cultural experience which was formerly the domain of the privileged classes. As early as the 1930s, the notion of a radio symphony orchestra—that is, a permanent concert orchestra based in the broadcasting studio—began to emerge. Through unconventional programming philosophies, as well as distinct social and political roles, many of these orchestras gradually acquired identities distinct from traditional symphony orchestras. However, radio symphonies have not received a large amount of scholarly attention. The purpose of this dissertation is to establish the historical context from which radio symphony orchestras emerged, with a specific focus on Canada. My primary focus is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and its relationship with twentieth-century music, as seen through the lens of the CBC Symphony Orchestra (1952–1964). The study proceeds in three stages. First, I provide a broad historical overview of the origins of radio symphony orchestras before World War Two, exemplified by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurter Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchestra and the BBC Symphony. Second, I look at the emergence of radio orchestras in Canada, and the CBC’s patronage of twentieth-century music in Canada following World War Two. These concepts are brought together in the final section, which focuses on the work of the CBC Symphony. Born as an intended symbol of Canada’s musical achievement, the CBC Symphony regularly featured music from outside the traditional orchestral canon. Not only did this policy introduce modern composition to Canadian listeners, it provided Canadian composers with regular opportunities to write for large orchestras—opportunities which had previously been few and far between, if present at all.
A Modified Framework to Describe Stress-Strain Behavior and Volumetric Response of Hydrate-Bearing Sand
Creators: name: Goharzay, Maral
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Stress-dilatancy
subject: Constitutive model
subject: Hydrate-bearing sand
subject: Engineering--Civil

description: Gas hydrate-bearing sands (GHBS) contain a large volume of methane in the form of hydrate, which makes them an attractive source of energy. Hydrates exert a strong influence on the mechanical properties of sands, where increasing hydrate saturation (Sh) of the pore space leads to an increase in peak strength, post-peak strain softening, and dilation. Methane recovery from hydrates requires dissociation of the hydrate, which involves coupled and complex processes involving methane gas generation, increases in fluid pressure and reduction in effective stresses, along with changes in the mechanical behavior of GHBS, all of which may present potential geo-hazards and engineering challenges. Field-scale hydrate production tests have been carried out to evaluate the potential for methane recovery, however, these have sometimes ended abruptly due to technical failures. For this reason, numerical models are required to evaluate the long-term feasibility of hydrate production and reduce the risk of failure. Thus, the development of an appropriate constitutive geomechanical model is necessary in order to conduct realistic numerical analyses to assess the long-term response of the GHBS reservoir during hydrate production. Early attempts at modeling the geomechanical behavior of hydrate-bearing soils modified the Mohr-Coulomb (MC) model by incorporating a relationship between cohesion (𝑐) and hydrate Sh of the pore space. As the MC model did not capture the overall stress-strain, including volumetric, response of hydrate-bearing sands, recent models have considered Rowe's stress-dilatancy theory. In this model, the increase in strength is related to dilation of hydrate-bearing sand and assumes the impact of hydrate in the pore space to be kinematic in nature (function of soil friction) and ignores any 𝑐 component of the hydrate. Although modifications to Rowe’s theory have included a 𝑐 component, both soil friction (kinematic) and 𝑐 are considered to be constants, although recent laboratory studies suggest that 𝑐 is mobilized and subsequently lost during shearing. In this study, a stress-dilatancy model is developed to better describe stress-strain response of GHBS, including 𝑐 effects. The model includes extensions to the well-known equations for Rowe’s theory to incorporate functions that consider the unique hydrate characteristics, as well as soil density and 𝜎3. The developed model better represents the geomechanical stress dilatancy behavior applicable to GHBS that can easily be implemented in standard elastoplastic models for use in numerical simulations to assess the impact of hydrate, and its dissociation, on the long-term response of a GHBS reservoir.
Critically separable rational maps in families
Creators: name: Petsche, Clayton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37P15, 37P45, 11G05

description: Given a number field K, we consider families of critically separable rational maps of degree d over K possessing a certain fixed-point and multiplier structure. With suitable notions of isomorphism and good reduction between rational maps in these families, we prove a finiteness theorem which is analogous to Shafarevich's theorem for elliptic curves. We also define the minimal critical discriminant, a global object which can be viewed as a measure of arithmetic complexity of a rational map. We formulate a conjectural bound on the minimal critical discriminant, which is analogous to Szpiro's conjecture for elliptic curves, and we prove that a special case of our conjecture implies Szpiro's conjecture in the semistable case.
description: In this version, some notation and terminology has changed. In particular, this results in a slight change in the title of the paper. Many small expository changes have been made, a reference has been added, and a remark/example has been added to the end of section 3
VIRTuE
Creators: name: Williamson, Emma Victoria
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: homonormativity
subject: game studies
subject: queergaming
subject: queer games avant-garde
subject: Literature--Modern
subject: Literature--English

description: VIRTuE is a visual novel developed in the software Ren’Py, the plot of which follows Vi, a “twenty-something” lesbian who has recently graduated from college, but who has now found herself unemployed, directionless, and facing mounting pressure from her parents to actually do something with her life. The story escalates, however, when a love poem Vi writes gains public attention after becoming a runner-up in a queer writing contest, and this newfound “success” leads her into a downward spiral of stress and anxiety. At its core, VIRTuE explores the pressures placed upon queer people by various “normativities” within our lives — from heteronormativity, to homonormativity, to chrononormativity — and the ways that attempting to mold oneself to fit into these normativities is inevitably a process of compromising one’s own queer identity. Throughout the game, Vi faces pressures to alter both herself and her work to avoid (both real and perceived) social rejection in a heteronormative world, illustrating the realities of life as a queer artist, but also simply as a young queer adult attempting to find one’s way in the world. As a protagonist, however, Vi also serves the purpose of challenging homonormativity, as she is intentionally written to be awkward, frustrating, and only dubiously likeable, thus deviating from media depictions of queer characters which may be “sanitized” for straight audiences and thus deprived of the opportunity to be controversial, messy, or otherwise truly queer. VIRTuE is also accompanied by a critical exegesis, “Boring Gay People: Homonormativity vs. the Queer Games Avant-Garde,” which further expands on the exploration of homonormativity in the game, and also details the significance of the project being specifically a video game. Toward the latter, the exegesis highlights the growing community of queer game developers within the “queer games avant-garde” who are changing the face of both art and gaming, and explores the unique potential held by games as a storytelling medium, including the ways that VIRTuE’s story is enhanced by being told through a game.
Additional file 1 of Nanoselenium transformation and inhibition of cadmium accumulation by regulating the lignin biosynthetic pathway and plant hormone signal transduction in pepper plants
Creators: name: Li, Dong
name: Zhou, Chunran
name: Ma, Jinling
name: Wu, Yangliu
name: Kang, Lu
name: An, Quanshun
name: Zhang, Jingbang
name: Deng, Kailin
name: Li, Jia-Qi
name: Pan, Canping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. UPLC-MS/MS parameters of plant hormones; Figure S1. GO class of different treatments in the root; Table S2. UPLC-MS/MS parameters of lignin-related metabolites; Figure S2. GO class of different treatments in the leaves; Table S3. Primer sequences for qPCR; Table S4. Statistics of the number of differentially expressed genes.
A Lack of Ricci Bounds for the Entropic Measure on Wasserstein space over the Interval
Creators: name: Chodosh, Otis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This is a condensed form of the author's essay, which can be found at [arXiv:1105.2883]. We prove that the entropic measure constructed by von Renesse-Sturm over Wasserstein space on the unit interval (probability measures on the unit interval equipped with the 2-Wasserstein metric) does not admit generalized Ricci lower bounds in the sense of Lott-Villani-Sturm. We discuss why this is surprising, considering various heuristic arguments.
Perceptual Learning of German Sounds: Evidence from Functional Load (FL) and High- Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT)
Creators: name: Suessenbach, Lisa
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: LINGUISTICS
subject: PHONETICS
subject: PRONUNCIATION
subject: FUNCTIONAL LOAD
subject: PHONOLOGY
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The objective of this thesis is to empirically test the practical implications of the functional load (FL) principle in German. The findings informed the selection of German phonemic contrasts for perceptual training of L2 German learners in a follow-up study. Previous research has suggested that sound contrasts carrying a high FL play a central role in conveying meaning, which closely links to the notions of intelligibility and comprehensibility of spoken utterances. Recent attention to FL in second language (L2) English pronunciation pedagogy highlights its role in selecting appropriate L2 sounds to train. In Study 1, the FL hierarchy of German and the impact of high vs. low FL segments on intelligibility and comprehensibility is tested among L1 German listeners. Results show that high FL errors have a more detrimental effect than low FL errors, but two errors are more severe than one, regardless of FL classification. Study 2 explores two types (i.e., audio and audiovisual) of high-variability phonetic training (HVPT) for challenging German sound contrasts among beginner L2 learners. HVPT employs multiple talkers and variable phonetic environments, thereby enhancing discrimination of sound contrasts. Results showed that especially audiovisual HVPT led to reduced discrimination accuracy, suggesting a need to investigate its use for training beginner learners. These findings shed light upon FL’s applicability in conjunction with word recognition models, thereby guiding future work on FL in L2 pronunciation pedagogy. They also provide insights into the theoretical implications of the HVPT technique in fostering perceptual abilities among beginner L2 learners.
Enhanced local-type inflationary trispectrum from a non-vacuum initial state
Creators: name: Agullo, Ivan
name: Navarro-Salas, Jose
name: Parker, Leonard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the primordial trispectrum for curvature perturbations produced during cosmic inflation in models with standard kinetic terms, when the initial quantum state is not necessarily the vacuum state. The presence of initial perturbations enhances the trispectrum amplitude for configuration in which one of the momenta, say $k_3$, is much smaller than the others, $k_3 \ll k_{1,2,4}$. For those squeezed configurations the trispectrum acquires the so-called local form, with a scale dependent amplitude that can get values of order $ ε({k_1}/{k_3})^2$. This amplitude can be larger than the prediction of the so-called Maldacena consistency relation by a factor $10^6$, and can reach the sensitivity of forthcoming observations, even for single-field inflationary models.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure. References added, typos corrected, minor changes
Decolonizing Geographies of Communication and Public Participation: Environmental and Climate Change Decision-Making Under Inuit Participatory Governance in the Western Canadian Arctic
Creators: name: Chew, Suzanne Wei-Lu
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: communication
subject: participation
subject: silence
subject: ontology
subject: bureaucracy
subject: co-management
subject: public hearing
subject: sovereignty
subject: Inuit
subject: Nunavut
subject: Arctic
subject: Indigenous
subject: Geography

description: Public participation is a key democratic process which can foster meaningful policymaking. Yet, in resource co-management, where natural resources are collaboratively managed by government and local communities, despite the widespread adoption of public participation processes, participation has largely failed Indigenous communities. Failure occurs when communication breaks down; yet, scant research has examined the role communication plays in the participatory processes of Nunavut's co-management boards, responsible for natural resource stewardship and entrusted with including affected communities in shared decision-making. This research examined the ways in which communication influenced public participation in environmental decision-making, and how spaces of decision-making shaped Inuit voice in participatory governance. Using a qualitative research approach, this study’s methodology learns from Indigenous research methodologies, combines a social constructivist lens with a phenomenological perspective and case study design, and adopts a constructivist grounded theory approach to data collection and analysis. Insights were drawn from in-person attendance at the 2020 public hearings on caribou co-management carried out by the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board in Kugluktuk and Cambridge Bay (Ikaluktutiak or Iqaluktuuttiaq) in the western Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, participant observation, literature review, community immersion in both communities over 11 weeks in 2018 and 2020, and 52 semi-structured interviews, including follow-up interviews with the same individuals, across 41 interviewees. Analysis indicated that at the caribou hearings, complex discourses behind communicative practices shaped by Inuit ontology and cosmology, such as silence and performative storytelling, were largely veiled. Governmentality and weaponized bureaucracy, power and colonial relations, and the use of rhetorical strategies antithetical to Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, or Inuit traditional knowledge, further contributed to communicative tensions in talking across worlds in these spaces of decision-making. The implications and significance of this research reach far beyond wildlife co-management, raising crucial questions on voice in environmental decision-making and more broadly, the dream of Inuit sovereignty in Nunavut.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill. [Pirated edition].
Creators: name: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Social contract
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Pirated edition of 1651, original first edition printed by Andrew Crooke; this pirated edition has a different frontispiece, and was likely printed circa 1654 in the Netherlands.
A Final framework of interventions, impacts and success conditions, updated with experiences from the living labs
Creators: name: Moretti, Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: cultural tourism
heritage
sustainable development
living labs

description: This report serves as deliverable D3.4 of the SmartCulTour ‘Horizon 2020’ project (grant agreement number 870708). The goal of SmartCulTour is to support regional development in all European regions with important tangible and intangible cultural assets, including those located in rural peripheries and the urban fringe, through sustainable cultural tourism. To fulfil this supportive role, SmartCulTour Work Package 3 aimed at providing more clarity and in-depth knowledge on the state of art of ‘cultural tourism interventions’, which was the main objective of SmartCulTour Deliverable D3.1. This deliverable is a continuation of SmartCulTour D3.1, which is also considered as an integral part of this deliverable. Deliverable D3.1 outlined and proposed a framework of different types of cultural tourism interventions, their impacts and success conditions. The framework represented more than just a summary but can be seen as a tool to start engaging stakeholders in conversations or decision-making processes concerning cultural tourism interventions. Based on the experiences of the SmartCulTour Living Labs, this deliverable contains an update of the framework proposed in D3.1, Therefore, this report considers the experiences of the Living Labs and specifically the type of interventions that have been identified, discussed, planned or initiated within each of the Living Lab, as already introduced in the Deliverable D6.2 ‘Production of abstracts and practice videos on tested interventions’. Those insights have been compared with the ‘Framework of cultural tourism intervention’ provided with Deliverable D3.1, to identify similarities and differences among the Living Labs experiences and the proposed framework. Where necessary and reasonable, the framework has been revised, proposing a final framework of interventions, impacts and success conditions, updated with experiences from the Living Labs.