cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Theory and Practice of Museum Translation: Translating and Translated Chinese Heritage in Xi’an
Creators: name: Li, Qing
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: museum translation
subject: Education--Language and Literature
subject: Anthropology--Cultural

description: This thesis presents the outcomes of a pioneering study of translation activities in mainland China, specifically exploring the interplay between cultural translation, power dynamics, and the formation of English-language heritage discourse in Chinese museums. The focus is on understanding how English-language heritage discourse is constructed, with an emphasis on intercultural translation and the roles of intercultural translators. A comprehensive literature review underscores the limitations in the field of museum translation, highlighting the insufficient consideration of diverse factors and stakeholders shaping translation processes in museums. To address this gap, I establish a robust theoretical foundation that integrates Western and Chinese perspectives, facilitating the exploration of museum translation across cultures and addressing crucial questions about the feasibility, indispensability, and incommensurability of intercultural translation in Chinese heritage museums. The investigation centres on cultural outreach policies influencing translation practices within Chinese heritage museums. These policies advocate a Sino-centric approach, resisting the assimilation of Chinese culture into English-language discourse. Translator subjectivity and the new Chinese heritage discourse contribute to ‘telling Chinese stories’ in languages other than Chinese. Empirical evidence from field research in Xi’an, China, includes in-depth interviews, photographic documentation, and analysis of exhibits, shedding light on intended messages and translation strategies. The study reveals deliberate efforts to present distinct aspects of Chinese culture to international visitors, while safeguarding narratives from undue assimilation into Western discourse. The study identifies various influencing factors on English-language discourse within Chinese heritage museums, such as the intentions of cultural outreach policymakers, museum administration, translator efforts, and international visitor engagement. The final chapter revisits museum Sino-centric translation, aligning it with thick translation and exploring periperformative factors affecting intercultural communication between translators and museum visitors. In summary, this thesis explores how intercultural translation shapes English-language heritage discourse in Chinese museums, offering a detailed understanding of the relationship between translation processes, cultural policies, and diverse stakeholders. This research advances the comprehension of the dynamic nature of English-language discourse in the context of Chinese heritage museums.
Additional file 9 of Altered expression of anti-apoptotic protein Api5 affects breast tumorigenesis
Creators: name: Kuttanamkuzhi, Abhijith
name: Panda, Debiprasad
name: Malaviya, Radhika
name: Gaidhani, Gautami
name: Lahiri, Mayurika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 9.
Saturated-Unsaturated flow in a Compressible Leaky-unconfined Aquifer
Creators: name: Mishra, Phoolendra K.
name: Vessilinov, Velimir V.
name: Kuhlman, Kristopher L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analytical solution is developed for three-dimensional flow towards a partially penetrating large-diameter well in an unconfined aquifer bounded below by an aquitard of finite or semi-infinite extent. The analytical solution is derived using Laplace and Hankel transforms, then inverted numerically. Existing solutions for flow in leaky unconfined aquifers neglect the unsaturated zone following an assumption of instantaneous drainage assumption due to Neuman [1972]. We extend the theory of leakage in unconfined aquifers by (1) including water flow and storage in the unsaturated zone above the water table, and (2) allowing the finite-diameter pumping well to partially penetrate the aquifer. The investigation of model-predicted results shows that leakage from an underlying aquitard leads to significant departure from the unconfined solution without leakage. The investigation of dimensionless time-drawdown relationships shows that the aquitard drawdown also depends on unsaturated zone properties and the pumping-well wellbore storage effects.
Supplementary document for Realization of an autonomously controllable process for atomic layer deposition and its encapsulation application in flexible organic light-emitting diodes - 6427790.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Zhenyu
name: Chen, Ziqiang
name: Wang, Jintao
name: Shangguan, Lianchao
name: Fan, Siyu
name: Duan, Yu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting Information
Bose-glass phases of ultracold atoms due to cavity backaction
Creators: name: Habibian, Hessam
name: Winter, André
name: Paganelli, Simone
name: Rieger, Heiko
name: Morigi, Giovanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the quantum ground-state properties of ultracold bosonic atoms interacting with the mode of a high-finesse resonator. The atoms are confined by an external optical lattice, whose period is incommensurate with the cavity mode wave length, and are driven by a transverse laser, which is resonant with the cavity mode. While for pointlike atoms photon scattering into the cavity is suppressed, for sufficiently strong lasers quantum fluctuations can support the build-up of an intracavity field, which in turn amplifies quantum fluctuations. The dynamics is described by a Bose-Hubbard model where the coefficients due to the cavity field depend on the atomic density at all lattice sites. Quantum Monte Carlo simulations and mean-field calculations show that for large parameter regions cavity backaction forces the atoms into clusters with a checkerboard density distribution. Here, the ground state lacks superfluidity and possesses finite compressibility, typical of a Bose-glass. This system constitutes a novel setting where quantum fluctuations give rise to effects usually associated with disorder.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, new numerical simulations are added
Integrable structure of box-ball systems: crystal, Bethe ansatz, ultradiscretization and tropical geometry
Creators: name: Inoue, Rei
name: Kuniba, Atsuo
name: Takagi, Taichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The box-ball system is an integrable cellular automaton on one dimensional lattice. It arises from either quantum or classical integrable systems by the procedures called crystallization and ultradiscretization, respectively. The double origin of the integrability has endowed the box-ball system with a variety of aspects related to Yang-Baxter integrable models in statistical mechanics, crystal base theory in quantum groups, combinatorial Bethe ansatz, geometric crystals, classical theory of solitons, tau functions, inverse scattering method, action-angle variables and invariant tori in completely integrable systems, spectral curves, tropical geometry and so forth. In this review article, we demonstrate these integrable structures of the box-ball system and its generalizations based on the developments in the last two decades.
description: 73 pages
Energy-Efficient Workload Placement with Bounded Slowdown in Disaggregated Datacenters
Creators: name: Sefati, Amirhossein
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Disaggregated Datacenter
subject: Power Consumption Optimization
subject: Workload Profiling
subject: Slowdown of Workloads
subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Computer Science
subject: Energy

description: Disaggregated Data Center (DDC) is a modern datacenter architecture that decouples hardware resources from monolithic servers into pools of resources that can be dynamically composed to match diverse workload requirements. While disaggregation improves resource utilization, it could negatively impact workload slowdown due to the latency of accessing disaggregated resources over the datacenter network. To this end, we consider CPU and memory disaggregation and conduct measurements to experimentally profile several popular datacenter workloads in order to characterize the impact of disaggregation on workload execution slowdown. We then develop a workload placement algorithm, called Iterative Rounding-based Placement ( IRoP), that given a set of workloads, determines where to place each workload (i.e., on which CPU) and how much local and remote memory is allocated to it. The key insight in designing IRoP is that the impact of remote memory latency on slowdown can be substantially masked by assigning workloads to higher-performing CPUs, albeit at the cost of higher power consumption. As such, IRoP aims to find a workload placement that minimizes the DDC power consumption while respecting a bounded slowdown for each workload. We provide extensive simulation results to demonstrate the flexibility of IRoP in providing a wide range of trade-offs between power consumption and workload slowdown. We also compare IRoP with several existing baselines. Our results indicate that IRoP can reduce power consumption and slowdown in the considered scenarios by up to 8% and 12%, respectively.
Aczélian n-ary semigroups
Creators: name: Couceiro, Miguel
name: Marichal, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20N15, 39B22 (Primary) 20M14 (Secondary)

description: We show that the real continuous, symmetric, and cancellative n-ary semigroups are topologically order-isomorphic to additive real n-ary semigroups. The binary case (n=2) was originally proved by Aczél (1949); there symmetry was redundant.
Brownian force noise from molecular collisions and the sensitivity of advanced gravitational wave observatories
Creators: name: Dolesi, R.
name: Hueller, M.
name: Nicolodi, D.
name: Tombolato, D.
name: Vitale, S.
name: Wass, P. J.
name: Weber, W. J.
name: Evans, M.
name: Fritschel, P.
name: Weiss, R.
name: Gundlach, J. H.
name: Hagedorn, C. A.
name: Schlamminger, S.
name: Ciani, G.
name: Cavalleri, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of Brownian force noise from residual gas damping of reference test masses as a fundamental sensitivity limit in small force experiments. The resulting acceleration noise increases significantly when the distance of the test mass to the surrounding experimental apparatus is smaller than the dimension of the test mass itself. For the Advanced LIGO interferometric gravitational wave observatory, where the relevant test mass is a suspended 340 mm diameter cylindrical end mirror, the force noise power is increased by roughly a factor 40 by the presence of a similarly shaped reaction mass at a nominal separation of 5 mm. The force noise, of order 20 fN\rthz\ for $2 \times 10^{-6}$ Pa of residual H$_2$ gas, rivals quantum optical fluctuations as the dominant noise source between 10 and 30 Hz. We present here a numerical and analytical analysis for the gas damping force noise for Advanced LIGO, backed up by experimental evidence from several recent measurements. Finally, we discuss the impact of residual gas damping on the gravitational wave sensitivity and possible mitigation strategies.
description: 13 pages with 9 figures (fixed typos found in proofs)
Additional file 10 of Altered expression of anti-apoptotic protein Api5 affects breast tumorigenesis
Creators: name: Kuttanamkuzhi, Abhijith
name: Panda, Debiprasad
name: Malaviya, Radhika
name: Gaidhani, Gautami
name: Lahiri, Mayurika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 10.
Alpha decay chains study for the recently observed superheavy element Z=117 within the Isospin Cluster Model
Creators: name: Kumar, Sushil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently observed $α$-decay chains $^{293-294}117$ were produced by the fusion reactions with target $^{249}Bk$ and projectile $^{48}Ca$ at Dubna in Russia. The reported cross-sections for the mentioned reaction are $σ=0.5(+1.1,-0.4)$pb and $σ$=1.3(+1.5,-0.6)$pb$ at $E^{*}=35MeV$ and $E^{*}=39MeV$, respectively. The Q-values of $α$-decay and the half-lives $Log_{10}T^α_{1/2}$(s) are calculated for the $α$-decay chains of $^{293-294}117$ nuclei, within the framework of Isospin Cluster Model (ICM). In the ICM model the proximity energy is improved by using the isospin dependent radius of parent, daughter and alpha particle. The binding energy $B(A_{i}, Z_{i})$ (i=1,2) of any nucleus of mass number A and atomic number Z was obtained from a phenomenological and more genaralized BW formula given by \cite{samanta02}. The calculated results in ICM are compared with the experimental results and other theoretical Macro-Microscopic(M-M), RMF(with NL3 and SFU Gold forces parameter) model calculations. The estimated values of $α$-decay half-lives are in good agreement with the recent data. The ICM calculation is in favor of the persence of magic number at N=172.
Design and electrochemical characterizaton of novel functionalized polythiophene and polysiloxane derivatives
Creators: name: Dalgakiran, Sibel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Metal-containing conducting polymers are a new and interesting class of materials that combine some of the redox properties of the conducting polymers and metal ions. In metal-containing conjugated polymers, there are several possible arrangements of the metal group relative to the backbone. This research focuses on the development of novel thiophene derivatives, with various side groups using different synthetic approaches and electrochemical polymerization. The resulting polymers could be excellent candidates for chemical sensors, solar cells, photoactive molecular devices and capacitors. Thiophene-based polymers containing η⁶-(haloarene)-η⁵-cyclopentadienyliron(II) hexafluorophosphate or ferrocene moieties were synthesized. Thiophene monomers which contained organoiron complexes were successfully polymerized using condensation polymerization and electropolymerization. The monomers and their precursors were characterized through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The thermal properties were studied with thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry. A novel series of functionalized thiophenes incorporating naphthol, coumarin and pyrene pendants were synthesized by Steglich esterification in the presence of DCC/DMAP and the synthesized monomers were electrochemically deposited onto glassy carbon and carbon fibre microelectrodes as active electrode materials. Another series was prepared with thiophenes using pendant terpyridine groups of varying functionality. The electrochemical impedance measurements were performed on surface-modified electrodes. Variation of capacitance values was explained according to the different fluorophore groups attached to the thiophene as well as the different substrates. The fluorescence behaviours and the surface morphological analysis were explained in detail. Additionally, using organoiron-mediated nucleophilic aromatic substitution, a number of allylamine-containing organoiron complexes were prepared. These materials were further hydrosilated with methyldiethoxyhydrosilane to generate cationic organoiron siloxanes and ferrocene-containing siloxane complexes. In situ cleavage of the ethoxy groups followed by the addition of H₂SO₄ resulted in the formation of polymeric materials. The synthesized polymers were individually blended with PAN/DMF matrix to form composite thin films. The films indicated porous surface morphology, increasing the surface activity.
Leveraging Community-based Samples to Assess Health and Reproduction of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus)
Creators: name: Hee, Olivia
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ovibos moschatus
subject: Hair
subject: Wildlife health
subject: Pregnancy
subject: Arctic
subject: Veterinary Science

description: The muskox (Ovibos moschatus), is a keystone species that is important for ecosystem health, subsistence, and culture. Despite their importance, several populations in the Canadian Arctic have experienced declines. Collaborations with communities and harvesters give us a better understanding of the drivers of these declines, and simultaneously help alleviate some barriers to research in the Arctic. In my thesis, I aimed to refine the use of harvester-based samples to improve muskox health and reproduction monitoring. First, I investigated the use of segmental analyses of guard hairs in muskoxen. I specifically asked whether there was a generalizable guard hair growth rate that could be applied for temporal assessment of biomarkers. To do this, I investigated guard hair growth rates from captive muskoxen over time and across body locations. I found that growth rates were faster than a previously described rate, and that growth rates varied intra-annually and across body locations. These findings indicate that there is not a generalizable guard hair growth rate, and that hair growth patterns at an individual level need to be considered. Second, I evaluated two methods for pregnancy determination in muskoxen: pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAG) in filter paper samples and fecal progesterone metabolites (FPM). I first tested captive pregnant and non-pregnant muskoxen, and found that measuring PAG was highly accurate for diagnosing pregnancy during gestation. Quantifying FPM concentrations was less specific in early- and late-gestation, but was accurate in mid-winter. PAG levels followed a biphasic pattern during gestation, with a decrease in January, while FPM concentrations were low in early- and late-gestation, and high in winter. I applied these tests to samples collected from wild muskoxen by harvesters from Kugluktuk and Ekaluktutiak, Nunavut, and Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories. I observed similar patterns in PAG levels and FPM concentrations, and diagnostic utility, in the wild muskoxen. With practical and reliable tools, we create more robust wildlife health monitoring programs, which in turn supports ecosystem and community health. As the Arctic is experiencing unprecedented changes, wildlife health surveillance is more important than ever to respond effectively to threats to wildlife and human populations.
Additional file 3 of Glycemic control and neonatal outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus treated using glyburide, metformin, or insulin: a pairwise and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yu, Dan-Qing
name: Xu, Guan-Xin
name: Teng, Xin-Yuan
name: Xu, Jing-Wei
name: Tang, Liang-Fang
name: Feng, Chun
name: Rao, Jin-Peng
name: Jin, Min
name: Wang, Li-Quan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Fig. 2. Risk of bias graph.
Additional file 11 of Altered expression of anti-apoptotic protein Api5 affects breast tumorigenesis
Creators: name: Kuttanamkuzhi, Abhijith
name: Panda, Debiprasad
name: Malaviya, Radhika
name: Gaidhani, Gautami
name: Lahiri, Mayurika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 11.
Influence of contemporary interpretation of Serbian epic poem on the increase of social intelligence of students
Creators: name: Snežana Laketa
Publisher: name: Христианское чтение
Year: 2019
Subjects: social intelligence
psychosocial development
modern teaching
traditional teaching
epic poems
morals.

description: Serbian epic poems show all levels of complex interpersonal relationships, and understanding of these relationships can enrich students’ ability to evaluate the relationship between people, understanding of human behavior — social intelligence. The aim of the survey is to investigate the influence of contemporary interpretations of Serbian epic poems on student achievement on tests of social intelligence. Sample of experimental research includes 414 primary school students of different ages, different genders. Of these 284 students are from elementary school Vuk Karadžic, Vlasenica, who had classes of Serbian language and literature in the traditional and the modern way and 130 pupils from elementary school King Alexander I in Gornji Milanovac who had classes of Serbian language and literature only in the traditional way. The study applied the experimental method. For the study we used the Test of recognition of human behavior from Lidija Vučić’s Test of social intelligence. The results confirm the hypothesis that the modern interpretation of Serbian epic poems is more efficient compared to traditional one in achieving better outcomes for students of both sexes on the social intelligence test.
Additional file 1 of Teachers’ race and gender biases and the moderating effects of their beliefs and dispositions
Creators: name: Copur-Gencturk, Yasemin
name: Thacker, Ian
name: Cimpian, Joseph R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Materials.
Mechanistic Exploration of Exercise and Neuropathic Pain
Creators: name: Vogel, Holly
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience

description: Peripheral nerve injury caused by disease or damage of the peripheral nerves is often accompanied by neuropathic pain, a debilitating chronic pain condition plagued by abnormal pain sensitivity. Current treatment options are limited and provide sub-optimal pain relief. Recent pre- clinical and clinical studies suggest that exercise reduces pain and improves motor recovery following nerve injury, but how this occurs is not clear. In this study, I characterized the development of neuropathic pain using the spared nerve injury (SNI) model which produces robust mechanical allodynia, a painful response to an innocuous stimulus. Utilizing a voluntary running wheel exercise paradigm, I identified key timepoints after nerve injury where exercise improves recovery following the development of mechanical allodynia. Focusing on the spinal cord as it is a hub for sensory nerve input and contains important motor circuitry that is altered following nerve injury, I assessed the impact of SNI and exercise on sensory peripheral nerve endings and spinal motor neurons as nerve injury induces persistent motor deficits. I also test the hypothesis that exercise modulates microglia, immune cells residing in the central nervous system that become reactive following SNI, contributing to the sequelae of neuropathic pain. Using a genetic mouse strain to visually distinguish peripheral immune cells from resident microglia, I demonstrate that SNI increases, while exercise decreases, the infiltration of peripheral immune cells into the spinal cord at a key timepoint where nerve injured animals given access to a running wheel no longer display mechanical allodynia. Further analysis of the spinal cord using gene profiling arrays uncover dysregulated gene expression due to SNI and exercise unique to the different regions of the spinal cord related to sensory and motor processing. Specifically, I identify genes Grin2b, Ptges3, and Faah that are over expressed two weeks after SNI in animals given access to a running wheel. At four weeks after SNI, expression of these genes is comparable to sham control. Ultimately these findings uncover specific dorsal and ventral horn temporal disease related transcriptional changes engaged by exercise that future studies may target to improve the treatment of neuropathic pain by mimicking the beneficial effects of exercise.
Epicauta (Epicauta) wellmani Kaszab 1956
Creators: name: Pan, Zhao
name: Ren, Guodong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Epicauta
Epicauta wellmani

description: Epicauta (Epicauta) wellmani Kaszab, 1956 (Fig. 5) Epicauta wellmani Kaszab, 1956: 636. Type locality: “ Assam: Khasi Hills ” (India). Type depository: BMNH. Epicauta (Epicauta) wellmani: Bologna, 2008: 374. Material examined from Xizang. 1 ex., Hanmi, Mêdog (29°22.117′N, 95°17.718′E; elev. 2250 m), 2015.VIII.14, J.Y. Wang & Y.S. Zhao leg. (presented by Dr. Hu Li of CAU, deposited in MHBU). Distribution. China: Xizang (Bologna, 2008) (Mêdog (MHBU)); India.
description: Published as part of Pan, Zhao & Ren, Guodong, 2018, Taxonomic revision of the subfamily Meloinae (Coleoptera: Meloidae) from Xizang, China, with description of a new species, pp. 66-88 in Zoological Systematics 43 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201807, http://zenodo.org/record/5366525
description: {"references": ["Kaszab, Z. 1956. Neue Meloiden aus der Sammlung des British Museum (Coleoptera). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (12) 9: 631 - 640.", "Bologna, M. A. 2008. Meloidae. In: Lobl, I., Smetana, A. (eds), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (Vol. 5: Tenebrionoidea). Apollo Books, Stenstrup. pp. 384 - 390."]}
Optically optimal wavelength-scale patterned ITO/ZnO composite coatings for thin film solar cells
Creators: name: Moreau, Antoine
name: Smaali, Rafik
name: Centeno, Emmanuel
name: Seassal, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A methodology is proposed for finding structures that are, optically speaking, locally optimal : a physical analysis of much simpler structures is used to constrain the optimization process. The obtained designs are based on a flat amorphous silicon layer (to minimize recombination) with a patterned anti-reflective coating made of ITO or ZnO, or a composite ITO/ZnO coating. These latter structures are realistic and present good performances despite very thin active layers.
Lytta (Asiolytta) satiata Escherich Punctation 1904
Creators: name: Pan, Zhao
name: Ren, Guodong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Lytta
Lytta satiata

description: Lytta (Asiolytta) satiata Escherich, 1904 (Fig. 7) Lytta poeciloptera var. satiata Escherich, 1904: 31. Type locality: “ Ost-Turkestan, Khotan-Gebirge ” (Xinjiang, China). Type depository: ZMHB. Lytta (Asiolytta) satiata: Kaszab, 1962: 296. Lytta (Asiolytta) selanderi: Wang et al., 2014: 46–47 (wrong identification). Material examined from Xizang. 1 ex., Gyaca County, Lasui Village (29°03.894′N, 92°27.936′E; elev. 3500 m), 2009. VII.29, Guodong Ren et al. leg. (MHBU). Distribution. China: Xizang (Gyaca (MHBU; Wang et al., 2014)), Xinjiang; Tajikistan. Remarks. Wang et al. (2014) confused the identification between L. satiata and L. selanderi. In their work, one “ L. selanderi ” and four “ L. satiata ” specimens are checked (the latter specimens is not listed in their paper). We rechecked the materials, and found the true identification should be exchanged.
description: Published as part of Pan, Zhao & Ren, Guodong, 2018, Taxonomic revision of the subfamily Meloinae (Coleoptera: Meloidae) from Xizang, China, with description of a new species, pp. 66-88 in Zoological Systematics 43 (1) on pages 71-72, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201807, http://zenodo.org/record/5366525
description: {"references": ["Escherich, K. L. 1904. Neue palaarktische Meloiden aus der F. Hauser'schen Sammlung. Munchener Entomologische Zeitschrift, 2: 30 - 36.", "Kaszab, Z. 1962. Uber das System der asiatischen Lytta-Arten, nebst Beschreibung drei neuer Arten (Coleoptera, Meloidae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 54: 289 - 298.", "Wang, X. P., Wang, H. L., Ren, G. D. 2014. Notes on the genus Lytta (Coleoptera: Meloidae) from China. Entomotaxonomia, 36 (1): 45 - 50."]}
Squaring the Triangle: Research, Experience, and Imagination in Biological, a Work of Dramatic Autofiction Focused on Adoption
Creators: name: Brodie, Leanna
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: adoption
subject: feminist drama
subject: autobiographical drama
subject: adoption triad
subject: playwriting
subject: Canadian plays and playwrights
subject: Theater

description: This artist statement describes the work of developing the theatrical script Biological, a process which included periods of research and exploration as well as writing and revision, all conducted during a global pandemic. The play––on themes of identity, family, motherhood, and the adoption triad––is a work of dramatic autofiction (from the French word “autofiction”, meaning autobiographical fiction) whose creation raised artistic, ethical, and practical concerns which this research aims to address.
Perspectives of Acute Care Healthcare Professionals on Harm Reduction Strategies: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Boring, Teressa
name: Lee, Marika
name: Watkins, Sarah
name: Jackson, Jennifer
name: Ens-Giesbrecht, Twyla
Publisher: name: Nursing
Year: 2023

description: Scoping Review Protocol
description: Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to investigate the perspectives of acute care healthcare professionals on harm reduction strategies. Introduction: Patients with substance use disorders (SUD) are more likely to leave hospitals against medical advice (AMA), which results in untreated health conditions, comorbidities, and increased hospital readmissions. Current research suggests that perceived stigma around addictions may increase the risk of leaving AMA. Harm reduction strategies can enhance patient care and reduce AMA departures; however, implementing these strategies can be challenging if healthcare professionals are opposed to harm reduction. This scoping review will investigate the current literature to understand the perspectives of acute care healthcare professionals on harm reduction strategies. Inclusion criteria: This scoping review will include studies that discuss the perspectives of regulated healthcare professionals working in acute care settings regarding harm reduction strategies. Literature on harm reduction education will be excluded, as well as harm reduction interventions not targeted at patients who use alcohol, illicit drugs, or abuse prescription drugs. Methods: This scoping review protocol follows the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidelines for developing a protocol (Peters et al., 2022). The searched databases will include MEDLINE(R) (Ovid), APA PsycInfo (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), and CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO). The search will use subject headings and keywords identified during the analysis of seed articles. To make the search more comprehensive, handsearching reference lists and citation tracing will be utilized. Studies will be limited to the English language. Data extraction will use articles from the search that discuss perspectives of harm reduction strategies in acute care. The data extracted will include the author, year of publication, title, setting, study design, participants, aim or questions, methods, and themes or outcomes. The proposed scoping review will follow the JBI methodology for scoping reviews (Peters et al., 2020).
Superluminal Group Velocity of Neutrinos : Review, Development and Problems
Creators: name: Fujii, Kazuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of this paper is both to provide mathematical reinforcements to the paper [Mecozzi and Bellini : arXiv:1110.1253 [hep-ph]] by taking decoherence into consideration and to present some important problems related. We claim that neutrinos have superluminality as a latent possibility.
description: Latex ; 23 pages ; 1 figure ; new references added
Additional file 4 of Glycemic control and neonatal outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus treated using glyburide, metformin, or insulin: a pairwise and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yu, Dan-Qing
name: Xu, Guan-Xin
name: Teng, Xin-Yuan
name: Xu, Jing-Wei
name: Tang, Liang-Fang
name: Feng, Chun
name: Rao, Jin-Peng
name: Jin, Min
name: Wang, Li-Quan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Fig. 3. Risk of bias summary.
Dynamics of cold bosons in optical lattices: Effects of higher Bloch bands
Creators: name: Lacki, Mateusz
name: Delande, Dominique
name: Zakrzewski, Jakub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extended effective multiorbital Bose-Hubbard-type Hamiltonian which takes into account higher Bloch bands, is discussed for boson systems in optical lattices, with emphasis on dynamical properties, in relation with current experiments. It is shown that the renormalization of Hamiltonian parameters depends on the dimension of the problem studied. Therefore, mean field phase diagrams do not scale with the coordination number of the lattice. The effect of Hamiltonian parameters renormalization on the dynamics in reduced one-dimensional optical lattice potential is analyzed. We study both the quasi-adiabatic quench through the superfluid-Mott insulator transition and the absorption spectroscopy, that is energy absorption rate when the lattice depth is periodically modulated.
description: 23 corrected interesting pages, no Higgs boson inside
Ground beetle conservation biocontrol: Potential for pest control ecosystem services using predation activity and trait-based analysis
Creators: name: Neame, Tobyn J.
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Carabidae
subject: biocontrol
subject: spill-over
subject: ecosystem service
subject: sentinel prey
subject: activity-density
subject: functional trait
subject: response-effect
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Entomology

description: Removal of non-crop vegetation (e.g., forest and grassland patches) to expand crop fields threatens the natural enemies of crop pests, like the ground beetle family (Coleoptera: Carabidae), that may use these areas for overwintering. An argument for maintaining non-crop vegetation is its potential to support the supply of ecosystem services, such as pest control, to the surrounding crop. A common proxy for this service is the activity-density of natural enemy species. Evidence that predators like ground beetles are attacking pests in crops has been less frequently studied as have the mechanisms for why non-crop vegetation may influence pest predation within the crop. Studying the traits of natural enemies that are both impacted by the environment and affect their predation activity, may provide a mechanism for how non-crop vegetation influences pest control. Traits, like the size of carabids, may influence both their dispersal from non-crop vegetation and their predatory activity. I sampled a gradient of distances from non-crop vegetation in 20 field sites. I estimated the potential for pest attacks by carabids through bite marks on sentinel prey (plasticine ‘caterpillars’ made to look like potential prey items) and measured the body size of 20,407 carabids. I also conducted prey choice experiments with the carabid Pterostichus melanarius. Generalized additive models show that the frequency of bite marks increased to 50 m into the crop before declining at 100 m, but carabids in pitfall traps increased linearly as distance from non-crop vegetation increased. Results also showed the smallest six quantiles of carabids increased in size with distance from non-crop vegetation areas and larger P. melanarius showed a trend towards preying upon larger prey than smaller prey, though we could not reject a null hypothesis of no effect (alpha=0.05; P=0.08). These findings show predation activity may be associated with non-crop vegetation and the carabid community size distribution, rather than being predicted by activity-density. These findings support conservation of non-crop vegetation to support the predation of a diverse array of pests.
Beyond Modernist Models of Aesthetic Development: The Shifting Field of Art Museum and Gallery Education in Canada
Creators: name: Smith, Margo
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Art education
subject: Museum education
subject: Aesthetic development
subject: Contemporary art
subject: Children and youth
subject: Education--Art

description: This qualitative study explored the experiences and perspectives of educators teaching children and youth about contemporary art in museums and galleries across Canada. Data were collected in semi-structured interviews with six museum and gallery educators. These educators were selected, through purposive sampling, for their professional experience and ability to speak to the role of modernist models of aesthetic development in contemporary art education. This study focused particularly on Michael Parsons’ five-stage model of aesthetic development, which was published in 1987. The findings section explored the participants’ goals and values in art education, as well as their teaching strategies. Theories and models of aesthetic development were described by the participants as not aligning with their goals, values, and teaching strategies. The data indicated that the participants did not view modernist models of aesthetic development as relevant to their work with children and youth. It appears that contemporary children are capable of engaging with more diverse types of art than Parsons’ model appears to suggest. The participants described shifts that have taken place in museum and gallery education in Canada over the past three decades. These shifts indicated some possible reasons why modernist theories and models of aesthetic development did not play a significant role in the participants’ professional practices. The implications these shifts may have on art education were explored, and the advantages of contemporary approaches to art education were identified.
Episodic starbursts in dwarf spheroidal galaxies: a simple model
Creators: name: Nichols, Matthew
name: Lin, Doug
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dwarf galaxies in the Local Group appear to be stripped of their gas within 270 kpc of the host galaxy. Color-magnitude diagrams of these dwarfs, however, show clear evidence of episodic star formation (Δt ~ a few Gyr) over cosmic time. We present a simple model to account for this behaviour. Residual gas within the weak gravity field of the dwarf experiences dramatic variations in the gas cooling time around the eccentric orbit. This variation is due to two main effects. The azimuthal compression along the orbit leads to an increase in the gas cooling rate of ~([1+ε]/[1-ε])^2. The Galaxy's ionizing field declines as 1/R^2 for R>R_disk although this reaches a floor at R~150 kpc due to the extragalactic UV field ionizing intensity. We predict that episodic SF is mostly characteristic of dwarfs on moderately eccentric orbits (ε>0.2) that do not come too close to the centre (R>R_disk) and do not spend their entire orbit far away from the centre (R>200 kpc). Up to 40% of early infall dwarf spheroidals can be expected to have already had at least one burst since the initial epoch of star formation, and 10% of these dwarf spheriodals experiencing a second burst. Such a model can explain the timing of bursts in the Carina dwarf spheroidal and restrict the orbit of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal. However, this model fails to explain why some dwarfs, such as Ursa Minor, experience no burst post-infall.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures. ApJ accepted
More M-branes on product of Ricci-flat manifolds
Creators: name: Ivashchuk, V. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Partially supersymmetric intersecting (non-marginal) composite M-brane solutions defined on the product of Ricci-flat manifolds M_0 x M_1 x ... x M_n in D= 11 supergravity are considered and formulae for fractional numbers of unbroken supersymmetries are derived for the following configurations of branes: M2 - M2, M2 - M5, M5 - M5 and M2 - M2 - M2. Certain examples of partially supersymmetric configurations are presented.
description: 28 pages, Latex, typos are eliminated, several examples are omitted
Living auspiciousness : the resurgence of Mianzhu's new year picture (nianhua) industry
Creators: name: Liu, April
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Chinese nianhua, or “New Year Pictures,” refers to a broad category of popular prints and paintings displayed during the Lunar New Year but also throughout the year to mark seasonal festivals, life cycle rituals, and popular religious practices. Despite the widespread circulation of nianhua today, the scholarly literature has largely characterized it as a thing of the past, as that which died out with the state circumscription of the woodblock printing industry during the 1950s print reforms and the ban on nianhua during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Although the industry has since rebounded, the scholarship continues to relegate nianhua to the past, as a prescriptive tradition represented by historic works rather those emerging in the marketplace. Drawing on historic archives, interviews, and firsthand observations, I will critique the recent rise of nianhua in Mianzhu, Sichuan. The primary goal is to rethink nianhua as a “living archive,” an evolving body of works firmly embedded in its immediate contexts of production and use. Mianzhu is a powerful case study because its historic woodblock printing industry never completely died out during the upheavals of the 20th century. In the early 1980s, the industry was catalyzed by a resurgence of ritual practices and a state-led folk art revival, two competing and often conflicting discourses that have fought for prominence in the marketplace. These developments push for a performative view of nianhua, where meaning is not fixed in representation but continually innovated upon, appropriated, and activated in situ to meet specific ends. Building on the “performative turn” in art history and ritual studies, this study challenges methodological approaches that treat nianhua as discrete visual texts or folk art objects belonging to a shared system of auspicious signs and symbols. Each chapter deploys a different strategy for rethinking nianhua’s attributed function to “pursue the auspicious, repel the portentous” as an open-ended site of contestation tied to ritual agency, lineage identity, and symbolic capital in the marketplace. Moving away from decoding symbols and towards analyzing practices, this study reveals the high stakes involved in recognizing nianhua as a living entity.
The Phoenicians and the Origins of Collective Rule in Archaic Greece
Creators: name: Vanderkloet, Jacob Deboer
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: History--Ancient

description: Over the last few centuries, the ancient Greeks and their systems of government have been held in high esteem as they are routinely treated as the direct precursors to modern western democracies. For example, the contemporary historian Wilfried Nippel writes: Nowadays democracy is an unambiguously positive norm… it is a reminder of the great Athenian experiment and invites comparison with the inventers of this order. Athens remains contemporary… it is seen as a flame pointing to the future that has warmed the hearts of countless numbers of men and women striving for autonomy and self-determination. While such statements remain common in modern scholarship and political discourse, researchers rarely seem to consider whether the Greeks and their political institutions were truly unique in antiquity or if other people were also developing broad-based governments at around this time. My research here intends to challenge some of these Hellenocentric oversights by demonstrating that the Phoenicians were another Mediterranean civilization in antiquity that developed broad-based oligarchical governments. In fact, my thesis will demonstrate that the trend of establishing broader, more collective systems of rule appears to have begun several centuries earlier among the Phoenicians than the Greeks. From this, I will argue that the origins of broad-based non-monarchical forms of government lie, not with the ancient Greeks and the institutions they developed over the course of the Archaic Period, but with the Phoenicians and the governments that existed in their city-states from as far back as the late Bronze Age. I will also argue that because the Phoenicians began this process of broadening their governments earlier, had political systems that were quite similar to the ancient Greeks’, and were in constant contact with the Hellenes at this time, perhaps the Phoenicians and their governments in some ways inspired the political developments of the Archaic Period. By doing so, I will advocate that modern researchers should perhaps focus less on the ancient Greeks and more on the Phoenicians when discussing the origins of democracy, or at the very least, concede that the history of broad-based governments is far older and more complicated than is generally assumed.