cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lower-order ODEs to determine new twisting type N Einstein spaces via CR geometry
Creators: name: Zhang, Xuefeng
name: Finley, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the search for vacuum solutions, with or without a cosmological constant, of the Einstein field equations of Petrov type N with twisting principal null directions, the CR structures to describe the parameter space for a congruence of such null vectors provide a very useful tool. A work of Hill, Lewandowski and Nurowski has given a good foundation for this, reducing the field equations to a set of differential equations for two functions, one real, one complex, of three variables. Under the assumption of the existence of one Killing vector, the (infinite-dimensional) classical symmetries of those equations are determined and group-invariant solutions are considered. This results in a single ODE of the third order which may easily be reduced to one of the second order. A one-parameter class of power series solutions, g(w), of this second-order equation is realized, holomorphic in a neighborhood of the origin and behaving asymptotically as a simple quadratic function plus lower-order terms for large values of w, which constitutes new solutions of the twisting type N problem. The solution found by Leroy, and also by Nurowski, is shown to be a special case in this class. Cartan's method for determining equivalence of CR manifolds is used to show that this class is indeed much more general. In addition, for a special choice of a parameter, this ODE may be integrated once, to provide a first-order Abel equation. It can also determine new solutions to the field equations although no general solution has yet been found for it.
description: 28 pages
Dentalium malekulaensis Scarabino 2008, n. sp.
Creators: name: Scarabino, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Scaphopoda
Dentaliida
Dentaliidae
Dentalium
Dentalium malekulaensis

description: Dentalium malekulaensis n. sp. Figs 1b-c, 2c TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype (lv) MNHN 20067 and 2 paratypes (dd) MNHN 20068-20069. TYPE LOCALITY. — Malekula island, Vanuatu, 16°16’S, 167°21’E, 360-419 m [MUSORSTOM 8: stn DW 1065]. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Loyalty Ridge. BATHUS 3: stn DW Vanuatu. MUSORSTOM 8: stn CP 1065, Malekula Island, 794, Mont J, 23°48’S, 169°49’E, 751-755 m, 1 dd (paratype 16°16’S, 167°21’E, 360-419 m, 1 lv (holotype MNHN 20067) MNHN 20069). and 1 dd (paratype MNHN 20068). DISTRIBUTION. — Loyalty Ridge and Vanuatu, live in 360-419 m, shells down to 755 m. DESCRIPTION. — Shell up to 27 mm long, slightly curved, yellow. Twelve primary ribs at apex, secondary ribs start near apex and other ribs start a little further anteriorly, reaching 48 in number at anterior aperture. Ribs high, angled. Intercostal spaces and rib surfaces sculptured with fine longitudinal striae, crossed by dense growth lines. Section star-like throughout. Apex slightly dorsoventrally depressed, with heavy protruding callus, with U-shaped lumen corresponding to V-shaped notch in ventral side of shell. Measurements of holotype: L 27, W 2.6, w 0.9-1.0. REMARKS. — Compared with Dentalium pluricostatum, the other species in the area with a similar rib scheme, D. malekulaensis is smaller, has more ribs (12 vs. 9) with sharper angles and all reach the anterior aperture. ETYMOLOGY. — Named after the type locality.
description: Published as part of Scarabino, Victor, 2008, New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia, pp. 215-268 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on page 219
Margery Wilson
Creators: name: Walker, Janet
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: By the time Margery Wilson reached her late twenties, she had completed her work as a film director. Prior to that, according to autobiographical accounts, she had received a seminary education supplemented in philosophy and literature by her father, actively pursued social-service work, and given one-woman public performances at clubs, schools, and churches in the Cincinnati area. She toured Ohio and south to Atlanta as a leading lady with the John Lawrence players, founded her own theatre company at sixteen years of age, and embarked to London with her sister Mary on an aborted world tour as musical entertainers (Wilson 1956). Then, in 1914, Margery Wilson traveled to Los Angeles and launched her Hollywood career. Today she is best remembered as Brown Eyes in D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916), but her motion picture career was extensive, with three dozen roles including many starring performances to her credit.
The XMM-Newton Slew view of IGRJ17361-4441: a transient in the globular cluster NGC 6388
Creators: name: Nucita, A. A.
name: De Paolis, F.
name: Saxton, R.
name: Read, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IGRJ17361-4441 is a hard transient recently observed by the INTEGRAL satellite. The source, close to the center of gravity of the globular cluster NGC 6388, quickly became the target of follow-up observations conducted by the Chandra, Swift/XRT and RXTE observatories. Here, we concentrate in particular on a set of observations conducted by the XMM-Newton satellite during two slews, in order to get the spectral information of the source and search for spectral variations. The spectral parameters determined by the recent XMM-Newton slew observations were compared to the previously known results. The maximum unabsorbed $X$-ray flux in the 0.5-10 keV band as detected by the XMM-Newton slew observations is $\simeq 4.5\times 10^{-11}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, i.e. consistent with that observed by the Swift/XRT satellite 15 days earlier. The spectrum seems to be marginally consistent ($Γ\simeq 0.93-1.63$) with that derived from the previous high energy observation.
description: Accepted for publication on New Astronomy, 2012. A sentence about the globular cluster 47 Tuc was partially rewritten to avoid confusion
On the assumption of Gaussianity for cosmological two-point statistics and parameter dependent covariance matrices
Creators: name: Carron, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this brief paper we revisit the Fisher information content of cosmological power spectra or two-point functions of Gaussian fields in order to comment on the assumption of Gaussian estimators and the use of parameter-dependent covariance matrices for parameter inference in the context of precision cosmology. Even though the assumption of a Gaussian likelihood is motivated by the central limit theorem, we discuss that it leads to Fisher information content that violates the Cramér-Rao bound if used consistently, owing to independent but artificial information from the parameter-dependent covariance matrix. At any fixed multipole, this artificial term is shown to become dominant in the case of a large number of correlated fields. While the distribution of the estimators does indeed tend to a Gaussian with a large number of modes, it is shown, however, that its Fisher information content does not, in the sense that their covariance matrix never carries independent information content, precisely because of the non-Gaussian shape of the distribution. In this light, we discuss the use of parameter-dependent covariance matrices with Gaussian likelihoods for parameter inference from two-point statistics. As a rule of thumb, Gaussian likelihoods should always be used with a covariance matrix fixed in parameter space, since only this guarantees that conservative information content is assigned to the observables, and at the same time prevents biases appearing.
description: Matches version published in A&A
Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts
Creators: name: Ganat, George L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Poststructuralism
Multilingualism--Social aspects
Language and culture

description: Post-modern, post-structural, and post-colonial thought have brought to the fore new and productive metaphors for understanding social life, challenging normative ideologies that restrict the deployment of certain personal identities. By surfacing implicit power relations traditionally accepted as common sense (Bourdieu, Foucault), locating fissures and intertextualities within discourses previously considered stable and coherent (Bakhtin, Derrida), and elucidating third spaces between dichotomous identity labels (Butler, Bhabha), critical thinkers in this vein have undermined the notion of an essentially stable self and encouraged exploration of social identity as a complex and shifting phenomenon. These commitments in turn offer profound critiques of socio-political structures in the name of liberating oppressed – or dispreferred – selves. However, with their inherently political stance and disregard for strict empirical inquiry, these discourses have simultaneously generated their own counter-productive biases and naiveties.
Additional file 1 of Pathomorphological characteristics of tuberculous placenta and its clinical implication
Creators: name: Hu, Zhidong
name: Zeng, Dong
name: Yang, Yuexiang
name: Liu, Huijun
name: Wang, Ao
name: Li, Duoduo
name: Liu, Min
name: Feng, Yanling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Station to station : contemporary British literature and urban space after Thatcher
Creators: name: Duff, Kimberly
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: “Station to Station: Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space After Thatcher,” examines specific literary representations of public and private urban spaces in late 20th and early 21st-century Great Britain in the context of the shifting tensions that arose from the Thatcherite shift away from state-supported industry toward private ownership, from the welfare state to an American-style free market economy. This project examines literary representations of public and private urban spaces through the following research question: how did the textual mapping of geographical and cultural spaces under Margaret Thatcher uncover the transforming connections of specific British subjects to public/private urban space, national identity, and emergent forms of historical identities and citizenship? And how were the effects of such radical changes represented in post-Thatcher British literary texts that looked back to the British city under Thatcherism? Through an analysis of Thatcher’s progression towards policies of privatization and social reform, this dissertation addresses the Thatcherite “cityspace” (Soja) and what Stuart Hall calls the “deregulation of the city” (23) as these open my research to issues of spatially affected identities in literary representations of the British city at the turn of the century. My four case studies move from a broad discussion of the effects of the heritage industry on the city and the individual (Iain Sinclair’s Lights Out for the Territory [1997]); to the relationship between space, identity, and the rolling back of the welfare state as it plays out in the stigmatization and neglect of council estate housing (Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting [1993]); to representations of race and entrepreneurialism in the Thatcherite city (Monica Ali’s Brick Lane [2003]); and, finally, to representations of space, gay identities, and class during a period of institutionalized homophobia (Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty [2004]). The project takes as its aim the tracing of various tentacles of Thatcherism as they creep across the spaces of the British city in a way that draws attention to how the processes and flows of Thatcherite neoliberal policies circulate across the spaces of the city, forever altering the ways in which individuals move and form identities within those spaces.
Pearl White
Creators: name: Dahlquist, Marina
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Commonly known as the Pathé Frère company’s “Peerless Fearless Girl,” or the “Heroine of a Thousand Stunts,” Pearl White’s undaunted and adventurous persona became emblematic for her career and for serial queens by and large. These included Grace Cunard at the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Helen Holmes at the Kalem Company, and Kathlyn Williams at the Selig Polyscope Company. Her key work consisted of action serials during an intense decade starting in 1914. From 1910, prior to the serials, Pearl White started out as a rather anonymous actress at the Powers Company, the Lubin Manufacturing Company, and the lesser-known Crystal Film Company, acting in films little recalled today, of which few have been preserved. The bulk of her early productions were split-reels for Crystal, directed by Lois Weber’s husband Phillips Smalley and distributed by Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Pearl White reached some popularity at Crystal playing comedy parts, as Moving Picture News in a 1912 article titled “Miss Pearl White to Become Aviator” tells us (19). In multiple films in 1913 Pearl White’s characters were subsumed under a recurrent character name, in fact, her own—a practice indicative of the serial films.
Dentalium Linne 1758
Creators: name: Scarabino, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Scaphopoda
Dentaliida
Dentaliidae
Dentalium

description: Dentalium (?) sp 3 Fig. 1f MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Loyalty Islands. Lifou. LIFOU 2000: stn 1413, Baie du Santal, 20°55.3’S, 167°05.0’E, 3-10 m, 1 dd. REMARKS. — The single specimen (L 20, W 3, w 0.7, arc 5), has dense, fine riblets along the length of the shell resembling those of a Graptacme species, but it also has 8 weak primary ribs, only observed under magnification, that could place it in Dentalium. Additional material is needed for correct generic placement.
description: Published as part of Scarabino, Victor, 2008, New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia, pp. 215-268 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on page 222
A new determination of α_s from hadronic τ decays
Creators: name: Boito, Diogo
name: Cata, Oscar
name: Golterman, Maarten
name: Jamin, Matthias
name: Maltman, Kim
name: Osborne, James
name: Peris, Santiago
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new framework for the extraction of the strong coupling from hadronic τdecays through finite-energy sum rules. Our focus is on the small, but still significant non-perturbative effects that, in principle, affect both the central value and the systematic error. We employ a quantitative model in order to accommodate violations of quark-hadron duality, and enforce a consistent treatment of the higher-dimensional contributions of the Operator Product Expansion to our sum rules. Using 1998 OPAL data for the non-strange isovector vector and axial-vector spectral functions, we find the n_f=3 values α_s(m_τ^2)=0.307+-0.019 in fixed-order perturbation theory, and 0.322+-0.026 in contour-improved perturbation theory. For comparison, the original OPAL analysis of the same data led to the values 0.324+-0.014 (fixed-order) and 0.348+-0.021 (contour-improved).
description: 31 pages, 7 figures, revtex, version accepted for publication, minor changes, reference added
A Sonnet of Ciro di Pers Attributed to G. F. Busenello
Creators: name: Livingston, Arthur
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1911
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature
subject: Philology

description: Two versions of a sonnet by Ciro di Pers are presented along with a brief discussion of its publication and attribution history.
Additional file 1 of Optimization of supraclavicular lymph node clinical target volume delineation in high-risk breast cancer: a single center experience and recommendation
Creators: name: Li, Li
name: Zhang, Hongyan
name: Wang, Linwei
name: Xie, Conghua
name: Yu, Haijun
name: Zhong, Yahua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure. Metastatic lymph nodes in supraclavicular region (the red arrow represent positive lymph node).
Therapeutic effect of Baccharis anomala DC. extracts on activated hepatic stellate cells
Creators: name: Basso, Bruno De Souza
name: De Mesquita, Fernanda Cristina
name: Dias, Henrique Bregolin
name: Krause, Gabriele Catyana
name: Scherer, Matheus
name: Santarém, Eliane Romanato
name: De Oliveira, Jarbas Rodrigues
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: hepatic fibrosis
HSCs
Baccharis
PPAR-γ
phenolic compounds

description: The therapeutic potential of Baccharis anomala DC. extracts was evaluated through its cytotoxic and antiproliferative effect and their phenotypic reversion property in activated hepatic stellate cells (HSCs). Baccharis anomala is distributed in Brazil (southeastern and south regions) and used for diuretic effect in folk medicine. Four fractions were obtained from the fractionation of the methanolic extract. Fractions III and IV decreased cell proliferation without increasing cell necrosis markers levels and induced cell cycle arrest in G1 phase. Fraction III induced phenotypic reversion through PPAR-γ activation pathway, while fraction IV did not alter PPAR-α/γ expression levels, suggesting that there is an independent PPAR-α/γ pathway involved. Hydroxybenzoic, chlorogenic and coumaric acids were identified. Fractions III and IV showed antiproliferative effect and ability to induce reversion of activated phenotype of HSCs.
description: EXCLI Journal; 18:Doc91; ISSN 1611-2156
Kathlyn Williams
Creators: name: Cooper, Mark Garrett
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Kathlyn Williams began work in motion pictures as an actress with Biograph in New York. “I was playing in stock,” she recounted to Photoplay in 1917. “One week when I was not working someone called me up from the Biograph studio and asked if I would work two days for them. I was dreadfully insulted at first, but I went out of curiosity expecting to be offered about fifty cents a day.” To her amazement, D. W. Griffith paid her ten dollars for each day’s work (77). Williams told Photoplay that she performed in three Biograph titles, but in combination, Paul Spehr and the American Film Institute catalog credit her with a total of five, with release dates beginning in 1909. Sources agree that she joined the Selig Polyscope Company in 1910 and quickly became the company’s leading actress. From the start, she played an action heroine, although she was also featured in dramatic roles. In 1913-14 she starred in the Adventures of Kathlyn, generally regarded as the first serial with “hold-over” suspense.
Dynamical polarizability of graphene irradiated by circularly polarized ac electric fields
Creators: name: Busl, Maria
name: Platero, Gloria
name: Jauho, Antti-Pekka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the low-energy physics of graphene in the presence of a circularly polarized electric field in the terahertz regime. Specifically, we derive a general expression for the dynamical polarizability of graphene irradiated by an ac electric field. Several approximations are developed that allow one to develop a semianalytical theory for the weak field regime. The ac field changes qualitatively the single and many electron excitations of graphene: undoped samples may exhibit collective excitations (in contrast to the equilibrium situation), and the properties of the excitations in doped graphene are strongly influenced by the ac field. We also show that the intensity of the external field is the critical control parameter for the stability of these excitations.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Notes on Renoart
Creators: name: Evers, H. M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1911
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature
subject: Philology

description: The portion of Aliscans generally known as Renoart is considered by most critics as a complete poem which, after existing independently for a certain time, was incorporated into Aliscans. Some speak of a lost Renoart cycle. The extant poems concerning Renoart do, in fact, form a cycle, consisting of the Renoart portion of Aliscans, Loquifer, Moniage Renoart, Maillefer and Renier. The question of the relationship of these five poems of the Renoart cycle to each other has been investigated by J. Runeberg whose study shows that the last four are merely continuations of the Renoart of Aliscans, and derive all their material from it or from later sources. Aliscans, therefor is the only poem of the cycle that can throw any light on the past history of the Renoart legend. The story of the battle of Larchamp, and with it the story of Renoart, exists in five main versions.
Antalis alis Scarabino 2008, n. sp.
Creators: name: Scarabino, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Scaphopoda
Dentaliida
Dentaliidae
Antalis
Antalis alis

description: Antalis alis n. sp. Figs 1i, 2d TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype (dd) MNHN 20080 and 2 paratypes (dd), MNHN 20081-20082. TYPE LOCALITY. — South of New Caledonia, Ile des Pins, 22°52’S, 167°16’E, 530-541 m, [BATHUS 2: stn DW 720]. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — South of New Caledonia. BATHUS 2: stn DW 719, south of Ile des Pins, 22°48’S 167°16’E, 444-445 m, 1 dd (paratype MNHN 20082); stn DW 720, 22°52’S, 167°16’E, 530-541 m, 2 dd (holotype MNHN 20080 and paratype MNHN 20081). DISTRIBUTION. — South of New Caledonia, 445-530 m, shells only. DESCRIPTION. — Shell up to 86.4 mm long, solid, slightly curved, shiny, cream. Sculpture of 29 primary ribs at apex and a few secondary ribs beginning at different points along the shell. Ribs evident on dorsal side at central area of shell, while disappearing earlier on ventral side. On anterior 1/3 of shell, growth lines are dense and crossed by slight longitudinal undulations on the dorsal side only. Section slightly dorsoventrally depressed throughout. Apex simple, truncate, with shallow V-shaped notch in ventral side. Lumen circular, suboval at end of short projecting pipe fissured on dorsal side. Measurements of holotype: L 86.4, W 5.6-5.5, w 1.3, arc 3.4. REMARKS. — Antalis alis resembles A. gardineri (Melvill, 1909) but has more numerous ribs (15-16 in A. gardineri and 29 in A. alis). The rib distribution is similar but, in A. alis the ribs are smooth, while in A. gardineri they exhibit sculpture most similar to that in A. boucheti Scarabino, 1995. ETYMOLOGY. — Named after the IRD research vessel Alis.
description: Published as part of Scarabino, Victor, 2008, New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia, pp. 215-268 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on page 225
Clare West
Creators: name: Stutesman, Drake
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Little information is available on Clare West although she trail-blazed the status of costume designer, costumed classic films, and in 2003 was entered in the Costume Designer Guild’s Hall of Fame. Allie Acker alone gives us pre-1915 details, and she finds that, after college, West studied in Paris, becoming an accomplished fashion artist. Edward Maeder (220) starts her career with D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915), but all sources agree that she worked for two years on his ancient-to-modern epic Intolerance (1916), the first motion picture to period-dress leads and extras. West’s exact role is unclear, but it is possible that she supervised all costuming. Clearly her work raised the level of exoticism of screen fashion and separated it from haute couture by making stunning clothing that were wearable only on film, commencing the important demarcation between the two costume modes. In the teens, actors often wore their own clothes and “wardrobe” was a division of the drapery department, which only purchased, rented, or tacked ready-made items. The costume department as such was not de rigueur until the late twenties, but West inaugurated its initial office when, with Intolerance, she attained the unprecedented credential of “studio designer,” a feat still notable almost ten years later when Motion Picture cited it (Calhoun 116-117).
Lule Warrenton
Creators: name: Gaines, Jane
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: We do not as yet have documentation on the “Hollywood Girls’ Club” or “the first all-woman film company” that Lule Warrenton was reputed to have started in 1923 (Slide 1996, 48). These would not have been her first efforts to get outside the niche she had occupied since she began at Universal in 1913. Dubbed “Mother” Warrenton, as a character actor she specialized in maternal roles. The first reference to Lule Warrenton as a director can be found in a 1916 article in the Moving Picture Weekly featuring the formation of her company within Universal Studios, formed to produce a picture then titled The Calling of Lindy. The following year, Moving Picture World announced that with the production of The Birds’ Christmas Carol, Warrenton would be “the first and only woman producer with a studio and company all her own” (1030). We now have a historical vantage on such hyperbole, however, and wonder how many times publicity from this period used the novelty of a woman producer or director to promote a picture.
Transiting super-Earth exoplanets : search and characterisation
Creators: name: Dragomir, Diana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The only way to measure the diameter of a planet outside the Solar System is if it transits its host star. Transit data combined with radial velocity (RV) data give an exoplanet's mass. Mass and volume yield density, so transits give unique insights into the interior structure of an exoplanet. Super-Earths are a class of exoplanet with masses a few times that of Earth, for which no examples exist in our Solar System. The goals of this thesis: to detect and characterise transits of exoplanets (particularly super-Earths) discovered via RV surveys orbiting bright stars. The observational tool: MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) - a microsatellite housing an optical telescope which can monitor stars with high precision. We searched 12 super-Earth candidate systems, applying special data reduction and analysis techniques. The search gives upper limits on the transit depths of 11 of the planets. For GJ 581e (innermost planet of an M dwarf system), the 1σ upper limit excludes most transiting configurations for a planet with water ice or H/He compositions. MOST data of HD 97658 rejected a claim of a transit detection in this system. The timely MOST rejection cancelled observatory programmes dedicated to follow up on the transit claim, preventing the waste of valuable time on major facilities. In parallel with the MOST survey, we analysed a decade of ground-based photometry to exclude most transiting configurations for the massive exoplanet HD 192263b. We showed that the star's rotation period does not coincide with the planet's orbital period, as was previously reported. We also find evidence for an 8-year activity cycle in the host star. The twelfth star in the MOST survey is 55 Cancri, whose innermost planet (55 Cnc e) has an orbital period of less than a day and transits the star. We present 42 days of new MOST photometry of this system, and derive one of the most precise radius values (1.99 ± 0.08 Earth radii) known for any super-Earth. We explore the possibility of star-exoplanet interaction, and set a limit on the albedo (reflectivity) of the planet, which has implications for its atmospheric composition.
Thea von Harbou
Creators: name: Wagner, Brigitta B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: In his 1928 book on film directing and screenwriting, Russian filmmaker Vsevolod Pudovkin notes that many literary figures had difficulty adjusting to “the optically expressive form” of film (110). Thea von Harbou, one of three German screenwriters who Pudovkin singles out, stands alongside Carl Mayer as one of the most influential film figures in Weimar German cinema, which spanned the years 1919 to 1933. Including an excerpt from Harbou’s script for Spione (1928), an espionage adventure film, Pudovkin goes on to praise the novelist Harbou for her ability to work with the film medium. Indeed, it is Harbou’s awareness of the “possibilities of the camera such as shots, framing, editing, [and] intensification through visually striking details” that distinguishes her work (212). In the scene in question—one of the most visually dynamic in the film—Harbou conveys in words the sense of movement, speed, and sudden discovery surrounding a train wreck. Each shot, each significant gesture, is noted, and in this she exemplifies the way her husband and collaborator Fritz Lang once described the model screenplay: “To the last intertitle everything has to be ready before the cameras roll” (62).
Edge effects in graphene nanostructures: II. Semiclassical theory of spectral fluctuations and quantum transport
Creators: name: Wurm, J.
name: Richter, K.
name: Adagideli, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of different edge types on the statistical properties of both the energy spectrum of closed graphene billiards and the conductance of open graphene cavities in the semiclassical limit. To this end, we use the semiclassical Green's function for ballistic graphene flakes that we have derived in Reference 1. First we study the spectral two point correlation function, or more precisely its Fourier transform the spectral form factor, starting from the graphene version of Gutzwiller's trace formula for the oscillating part of the density of states. We calculate the two leading order contributions to the spectral form factor, paying particular attention to the influence of the edge characteristics of the system. Then we consider transport properties of open graphene cavities. We derive generic analytical expressions for the classical conductance, the weak localization correction, the size of the universal conductance fluctuations and the shot noise power of a ballistic graphene cavity. Again we focus on the effects of the edge structure. For both, the conductance and the spectral form factor, we find that edge induced pseudospin interference affects the results significantly. In particular intervalley coupling mediated through scattering from armchair edges is the key mechanism that governs the coherent quantum interference effects in ballistic graphene cavities.
title: Mehrsprachigkeit in der Verständigung zwischen Schule und Eltern
title: Multilinguality for Understanding between Schools and Parents
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Vogel, Dita
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mehrsprachigkeit
subject: Migration
subject: Kommunikation
subject: Erziehungsberechtigte
subject: Eltern
subject: Schule
subject: 370

description: Eltern und schulische Professionelle müssen sich verständigen, um die Erziehung und Bildung der Kinder gemeinsam zu gestalten. Dazu müssen sie nach Gemeinsamkeiten in ihren Sprachrepertoires suchen. Künstliche Intelligenz hat die Übersetzungs-möglichkeiten radikal verbessert, aber besonders neu zugewanderte Eltern sind oft unsicher, ob sie alles richtig verstanden haben. Sie brauchen eine vertrauensvolle Atmosphäre, in der wiederholte Rückfragen möglich sind. Das Paper gibt Denkanstöße, was bei der kreativen Gestaltung der Verständigung bedacht werden sollte. Außerdem gibt es Hinweise, wo weiterführende Informationen und Tipps zu finden sind.
Antalis boucheti Scarabino 1995
Creators: name: Scarabino, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Scaphopoda
Dentaliida
Dentaliidae
Antalis
Antalis boucheti

description: Antalis boucheti Scarabino, 1995 Antalis boucheti Scarabino, 1995: 234, figs 42, 45h, j, 73g. Material cited: 11 lots (31 spms) from northern New Caledonia, Loyalty Ridge, live in 300- 424 m. NEW MATERIAL EXAMINED. — North of New Caledonia. Norfolk Ridge. SMIB 8: stn DW 189, 23°18’S, 168°06’E, 400- BATHUS 4: stn DW 904, Grand Passage, 19°00’S, 163°12’E, 402 m, 2 dd. 461 m, 1 dd; stn CP 947, Passe de Hienghène, 20°34’S, 164°56 LoyaltyRidge. MUSORSTOM 6: stn DW 406, 20°41’S, E, 470-490 m, 5 lv, 10 dd. — PALEO-SURPRISE: stn DW 1391, 167°07’E, 373 m, 1 dd. Atoll de Surprise, 18°30’S, 163°03’E, 365 m, 1 lv, 13 dd. DISTRIBUTION. — Global distribution: Philippines, shells down to 842 m (Scarabino 1995), New Caledonia, live in 365-470 m. Distribution in the New Caledonian region: north of New Caledonia, Norfolk and Loyalty Ridges, live in 365-470 m.
description: Published as part of Scarabino, Victor, 2008, New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia, pp. 215-268 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on pages 225-226
Helen Wang
Creators: name: Wei, S. Louisa
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Born in 1903 as Peng Jianqing, Helen Wang was raised in a traditional scholarly family within a confined compound in Wuhu, Anhui Province. She was the only girl and her parents’ favorite. At thirteen, her father moved the entire family to Shanghai so she could attend St. Mary Girl’s School. While there, she learned English, read Western literature, enjoyed music, and adopted the English name of Helen (Shen 56). Before she graduated, both her parents passed away, leaving her in the care of her eldest brother, who soon married her off to a man working for a Sino-Japanese mine in Fengtian (now Shenyang) that was more than a thousand miles away from Shanghai. Sixteen-year-old Helen bore her husband’s debauchery and anti-Chinese deference to his Japanese employers for a brief time before returning to Shanghai to try to make her own life. Since her brother was unwilling to take her back in, she took up residence with her godmother and managed to secure a job as a typist in a company under British American Tobacco (S. Zhang 404).
AdS/CFT Energy Loss in Time-Dependent String Configurations
Creators: name: Ficnar, Andrej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze spacetime momentum currents on a classical string worldsheet, study their generic connection via AdS/CFT correspondence to the instantaneous energy loss of the dual field theory degrees of freedom and suggest a general formula for computing energy loss in a time-dependent string configuration. Applying this formula to the case of falling strings, generally dual to light quarks, reveals that the energy loss does not display a well-pronounced Bragg peak at late times, as previously believed. Finally, we comment on the possible implications of this result to the jet quenching phenomena in heavy ion collisions.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure. Issues with sign conventions resolved and other minor corrections. Discussion and references added. Published version
Antalis maestratii Scarabino 2008, n. sp.
Creators: name: Scarabino, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Scaphopoda
Dentaliida
Dentaliidae
Antalis
Antalis maestratii

description: Antalis maestratii n. sp. Fig. 1h TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype (dd) MNHN 20083 and 5 paratypes (dd) MNHN 20084-20088. TYPE LOCALITY. — Tonga, 23°23’S, 176°18’W, 407-443 m [BORDAU 2: stn DW1631]. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — North of New Caledonia. BATHUS 1546, 21°18’S, 175°18’ W, 430-441 m, 1 dd (paratype MNHN 4: stn DW 908, Grand Passage, 18°58’S, 163°11’E, 502-527 m, 20086); stn CP 1628, 23°22’S, 176°18’ W, 400-416 m, 1 dd 1 dd (paratype MNHN 20088). (paratype MNHN 20087); stn DW 1631, 23°23’S, 176°18’W, Tonga. BORDAU 2: stn CP1545, southwest Tongatapu, 21°17’S, 407-443 m, 2 dd (holotype MNHN 20083 and paratype MNHN 175°17’W, 444-447 m, 1 dd (paratype MNHN 20085); stn CP 20084). DISTRIBUTION. — North of New Caledonia, in 502-527 m, and Tonga, in 416-444 m (shells only). DESCRIPTION. — Shell up to 78.7 mm long, regularly curved, shiny, light orange. Ten ribs hardly observable at apex, absent on ventral side, obvious on dorsal side until the middle of shell, all vanishing towards mouth. Growth lines are dense and irregular, sligthly wavy not straight. Section very slightly depressed dorsoventrally. Apical thin, circular in section, with a shallow notch on ventral side. Measurements of holotype: L 78.9, W 4.2-4.1, w 0.6, arc 6. REMARKS. — Compared to A. alis (described above) A. maestratii is more curved and tapering, colored and almost translucent. Antalis maestratii seems to represent an extreme form within Antalis, in which the ribs are present only on the dorsal side, vanishing early before the middle of shell. ETYMOLOGY. — Named after Philippe Maestrati (MNHN), who dedicatedly processed most of the material described here, and offered continuous support during the author’s visits to the MNHN.
description: Published as part of Scarabino, Victor, 2008, New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia, pp. 215-268 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on page 226
NODES_INNDIANA_Z65_Relaxometric investigations of Fe(III)-based complexes as T1-weighted Contrast Agents
Creators: name: Nucera, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spoke 5 - Industry for Health and Silver Economy
INNDIANA Project
Eco healthcare
ECS00000036

description: "In this presentation we discuss recent findings on Fe(III) chelates as potential alternatives to gadolinium-based contrast agents, which have raised concerns about their economic, environmental, and clinical impacts. Fe(III) chelates demonstrate comparable efficacy in MRI diagnostics, but their mechanisms of action require further investigation, best explored through relaxometry. These insights guide the optimization of Fe(III) complexes for safer, more effective contrast agents."
Gabriela von Bussenius Vega
Creators: name: Donoso, Eliana Jara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: When she was very young, Gabriela von Bussenius Vega wrote the story of La agonía de Arauco/The Agony of Arauco (1917). In this, she reminds us of Cándida Beltrán Rendón, who also later adapted a story she had written as a young woman. During this time, von Bussenius Vega was also writing essays and film commentary published in the celebrated magazine, Zig-Zag. Around this time she met and married an Italian, Salvador Giambastiani, considered one of the founders of Chilean national cinema, who had just joined with two businessmen to found the Chile Film Company.
Target Mass Monitoring and Instrumentation in the Daya Bay Antineutrino Detectors
Creators: name: Band, Henry R.
name: Cherwinka, Jeffrey J.
name: Greenler, Lee S.
name: Heeger, Karsten M.
name: Hinrichs, Paul
name: Kang, Li
name: Lewis, Christine A.
name: Li, Shanfeng
name: Lin, Shengxin
name: McFarlane, Michael C.
name: Wang, Wei
name: Webber, David M.
name: Wei, Yadong
name: Wise, Thomas S.
name: Xiao, Qiang
name: Yang, Li
name: Zhang, Zhijian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Daya Bay experiment measures sin^2 2θ_13 using functionally identical antineutrino detectors located at distances of 300 to 2000 meters from the Daya Bay nuclear power complex. Each detector consists of three nested fluid volumes surrounded by photomultiplier tubes. These volumes are coupled to overflow tanks on top of the detector to allow for thermal expansion of the liquid. Antineutrinos are detected through the inverse beta decay reaction on the proton-rich scintillator target. A precise and continuous measurement of the detector's central target mass is achieved by monitoring the the fluid level in the overflow tanks with cameras and ultrasonic and capacitive sensors. In addition, the monitoring system records detector temperature and levelness at multiple positions. This monitoring information allows the precise determination of the detectors' effective number of target protons during data taking. We present the design, calibration, installation and in-situ tests of the Daya Bay real-time antineutrino detector monitoring sensors and readout electronics.
description: 22 pages, 20 figures; accepted by JINST. Changes in v2: minor revisions to incorporate editorial feedback from JINST
Katri Viita
Creators: name: Pennanen, Riikka
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Katri Viita, born Karin Elisabet Viitainoja, is one of the pioneer female screenwriters of Finland. In fact, only two female scenarists are known to have worked during the silent era: Viita, who wrote Työn sankarilaulu/A Song About the Heroism of Labour (1929) and Gerda Hintze, the scenarist of Kajastus/Mirage (1930). Viita and Hintze worked around the same time: Työn sankarilaulu was filmed during the spring and summer of 1929 whilst Kajastus went into production during the fall of 1929. Unlike Hintze, Viita also worked during the sound era. It is important to acknowledge the challenge of identifying all of the crew members of silent-era Finnish cinema. For example, only a few crew members are credited in existing original opening credits and film programmes, which were available to cinemagoers. In some cases, resources like Suomen kansallisfilmografia/The Finnish National Filmography only identify the surname of crew members (Uusitalo et al. 1996). Furthermore, it is known that women working in film sometimes used gender neutral or masculine pseudonyms (Pennanen 2016).
Phantom Inflation in Little Rip
Creators: name: Liu, Zhi-Guo
name: Piao, Yun-Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phantom inflation in little rip cosmology, in which the current acceleration is driven by the field with the parameter of state w < -1, but since w tends to -1 asymptotically, the rip singularity occurs only at infinite time. In this scenario, before the rip singularity is arrived, the universe is in an inflationary regime. We numerically calculate the spectrum of primordial perturbation generated during this period and find that the results may be consistent with observations. This implies that if the reheating happens again, the current acceleration might be just a start of phantom inflation responsible for the upcoming observational universe.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, discussion added, Appendix and refs. added, to be published in PLB
Fissidentalium waterhousae Lamprell & Healy 1998
Creators: name: Scarabino, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Scaphopoda
Dentaliida
Dentaliidae
Fissidentalium
Fissidentalium waterhousae

description: Fissidentalium waterhousae Lamprell & Healy, 1998 Fissidentalium waterhousae Lamprell & Healy, 1998: 94, figs 92E, 93, 98. TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype (dd) AMS C309881. TYPE LOCALITY. — Elizabeth Reef, Tasman Sea, 29°53.82’S, 159°01.65’E, 420 m. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — North of New Caledonia. CP 921, 18°47’S, 163°17’E, 610-613 m, 1 lv. BATHUS 4: stn DW 914, Grand Passage, 18°49’S 163°15’E, Norfolk Ridge. NORFOLK 1: stn DW 1665, Banc Stylaster, 600-616 m, 1 lv; stn DW 918, 18°49’S, 163°16’E, 613-647 m, 23°43’S, 167°43’E, 923 m, 5 dd; stn DW 1695, Banc Introuvable, 4 dd; stn CP 912, 18°56’S, 163°08’E, 690-702 m, 1 dd; stn 24°40’S, 168°39’E, 562-587 m, 1 lv, 2 dd. DISTRIBUTION. — Global distribution: Elizabeth Reef, Tasman Sea, now extended to New Caledonia; live in 587-610 m, shells from 420 m (Lamprell & Healy 1998) to 923 m (this study). Distribution in the New Caledonian region: northern New Caledonia and Norfolk Ridge, live in 587-610 m (first record).
description: Published as part of Scarabino, Victor, 2008, New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia, pp. 215-268 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on pages 229-230