cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
time
Creators: name: Sieroka, Norman
Publisher: name: Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature
Year: 2021

description: Everything that is individually experienced by people, along with every external event and process – especially in nature – can be ordered according to succession, and thus temporally. In this sense, time is always an ordering parameter of events. What is disputed within philosophy, however, is what else constitutes time; for example, whether it is relative or absolute, subjective or objective, a form of intuition or a substance, whether there are sub-types of time that are irreducible or can be derived from each other in a specific way, and the like. Characteristic of time as an ordering parameter is the combination of aspects of continuous change (linearity) with those of regular recurrence (cyclicity). Furthermore, in the scientific-technical description of external events, so-called B-time or tenseless ascriptions (i.e. earlier-later relations) are often of particular importance. In contrast, so-called A-time or tensed ascriptions (being present versus being past or future) are usually central to experience. Thus, in the context of natural philosophy – which deals with scientific-technical concepts of nature as well as with nature as experienced – both a separate understanding of A- and B- times and an understanding of their interrelations is of central importance.
description: Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature, No. 2 (2021)
Agent and object aware tracking and mapping methods for mobile manipulators
Creators: name: Houseago, Charles Fletcher
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: The age of the intelligent machine is upon us. They exist in our factories, our warehouses, our military, our hospitals, on our roads, and on the moon. Most of these things we call robots. When placed in a controlled or known environment such as an automotive factory or a distribution warehouse they perform their given roles with exceptional efficiency, achieving far more than is within reach of a humble human being. Despite the remarkable success of intelligent machines in such domains, they have yet to make a full-hearted deployment into our homes. The missing link between the robots we have now and the robots that are soon to come to our houses is perception. Perception as we mean it here refers to a level of understanding beyond the collection and aggregation of sensory data. Much of the available sensory information is noisy and unreliable, our homes contain many reflective surfaces, repeating textures on large flat surfaces, and many disruptive moving elements, including humans. These environments change over time, with objects frequently moving within and between rooms. This idea of change in an environment is fundamental to robotic applications, as in most cases we expect them to be effectors of such change. We can identify two particular challenges1 that must be solved for robots to make the jump to less structured environments - how to manage noise and disruptive elements in observational data, and how to understand the world as a set of changeable elements (objects) which move over time within a wider environment. In this thesis we look at one possible approach to solving each of these problems. For the first challenge we use proprioception aboard a robot with an articulated arm to handle difficult and unreliable visual data caused both by the robot and the environment. We use sensor data aboard the robot to improve the pose tracking of a visual system when the robot moves rapidly, with high jerk, or when observing a scene with little visual variation. For the second challenge, we build a model of the world on the level of rigid objects, and relocalise them both as they change location between different sequences and as they move. We use semantics, image keypoints, and 3D geometry to register and align objects between sequences, showing how their position has moved between disparate observations.
Rewriting the Nation: Politics, Culture, and Representation in Contemporary Nepali Literature
Creators: name: Subedi, Prakash
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Literature

description: Starting with the People’s Revolution (I) in 1990, gathering momentum with the Maoist uprising between 1996 and 2006, and culminating in the People’s Revolution (II) in 2006 and Madhes Revolution (2007), Nepal has undergone momentous changes in the last three decades, the most important among them being the transformation of the country from a unitary Hindu monarchy to a federal secular republic. This study analyses contemporary Nepali literature to examine how socio-political issues of inclusion and exclusion based on language, caste/ethnicity, religion, and geographical region, emerge in Nepal’s recent past. The study finds that the issues pertaining to minoritised languages, castes/ethnicities, religions, regions, and gender are moving centre stage in recent years, and by articulating a more radical account of Nepali story-telling, these contemporary writings have become the forerunner in envisioning a more inclusive imagined community.
Analysing surface structures on (Ga,Mn)As by Atomic Force Microscopy
Creators: name: Piano, S.
name: Rushforth, A. W.
name: Edmonds, K. W.
name: Campion, R. P.
name: Adesso, G.
name: Gallagher, B. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using atomic force microscopy, we have studied the surface structures of high quality molecular beam epitaxy grown (Ga,Mn)As compound. Several samples with different thickness and Mn concentration, as well as a few (Ga,Mn)(As,P) samples have been investigated. All these samples have shown the presence of periodic ripples aligned along the $[1\bar{1}0]$ direction. From a detailed Fourier analysis we have estimated the period (~50 nm) and the amplitude of these structures.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. To appear in J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. (special issue for the RTNSA conference 2011)
Tensile behaviour of single AS4 carbon fibers and AS4/3501-6 carbon-epoxy composite
Creators: name: Le, Phong Xuan
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: TA 418.9 F5 L42 1987
subject: Carbon fibers - Testing
subject: Fibrous composites - Testing

description: Bibliography: p. 148-154.
Late Cenozoic soils of the Glacier and Waterton Parks area, northwestern Montana and southwestern Alberta, and paleoclimatic implications
Creators: name: Karlstrom, Eric Thor
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: QE 691 K37 1981 Fiche
subject: Geology, Stratigraphic - Cenozoic
subject: Geology - Alberta
subject: Geology - Montana
subject: Paleoclimatology - Alberta
subject: Paleoclimatology - Montana

description: Bibligraphy: p. 224-236.
The Political Dimension of Evangelical Fundamentalism in the USA
Creators: name: Naso, Paolo
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2007

description: The R factor – where R stays for religion – is one of the major elements of the current US politics. In particular the Republican party and the Administration are influenced by waves of religious fundamentalism proposing a strong political agenda in domestic and in foreign policy as well. The arise of religious fundamentalism is not a new phenomenon at all. What is new is its political impact after 9/11 and its consequences in the US self-perception in the international scenario. The article explores the different waves of Christian fundamentalism and their evolution: from the origin related to the creationism vs. evolutionism debate; to the “religious right” in and immediately after the Reagan’s years; to its new millenarist theology outlining global war scenarios starting from the conflict in the Middle East and pushing the Administration to pursue a “Christian agenda” to restore supposedly traditional American values. Because of its military and cultural extremism this trend will not produce long term consequences. Nevertheless it can trouble seriously the democratic process and the constitutional principle of Church/State separation.
description: RSAJournal, V. 17 (2007): Joint Issue (vol. 17 and vol. 18) - Religion and Secularization in the United States of America
Space Charge Influence on the Angle of Conical Spikes Developing on a Liquid-Metal Anode
Creators: name: Boltachev, Grey Sh.
name: Zubarev, Nikolay M.
name: Zubareva, Olga V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of the space charge of ions emitted from the surface of a conical spike on its shape has been studied. The problem of the calculation of the spatial distributions of the electric field, ion velocity field, and the space charge density near the cone tip has been reduced to the analysis of a system of ordinary differential equations. As a result of numerical solution of these equations, the criterion of the balance of the capillary and electrostatic forces on the conic surface of a liquid-metal anode has been determined. It has allowed us to relate the electrical current flowing through the system, the applied potential difference and the cone angle. We have compared the results of our calculations with available experimental data concerning emission from the surface of pure liquid gallium (Ga), indium (In), tin (Sn), and some liquid alloys, such as Au+Si, Co+Ge, and Au+Ge. On the basis of the proposed model, explanations have been given for a number of specific features of the emissive behavior of different systems.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Extending the theory of planned behavior to assess farmers intention to adopt sustainable agricultural practices: evidence from cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire
Creators: name: COULIBALY, TIEFIGUE PIERRETTE
name: DU, JIANGUO
name: DIAKITE, DANIEL
name: DABUO, FRANCIS TANG
name: COULIBALY, ISSA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 70108 Sustainable Agricultural Development
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences
subject: 70199 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management not elsewhere classified

description: To counter climate change and achieve sustainable agriculture goals, farmers must follow sustainable agriculture practices. Several factors have influenced farmers' decisions to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, but adoption remains poor, especially in Africa. Based on the theory of planned behavior extended with constructs from the Norms Activation Theory, we investigate the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices by cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire. The data was derived from a survey of 570 cocoa farmers conducted in 2020. We used structural equation model (SEM) to look for correlations between variables. The results indicate that subjective norm, personal norm, attitude, and perceived behavioral control are significantly positively correlated with farmers' Intention toward Sustainable Agricultural Practices and that farmers' personal ecological norm is affected both by the Awareness of the consequences of their action and their subjective norm when their attitude is only affected by Awareness of the consequences.
A People “Almost Chosen” by God
Creators: name: Bonazzi, Tiziano
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2007

description: In order to understand the role of religion and secularism in the United States and their fall out in Europe and, namely, in Italy, it is necessary to reconsider United States history as part of the system of “Greater Europe,” extending to states of a European matrix arising in the Americas with the dissolution of colonial systems. The Christian right’s reaction to what it perceives today as a threat to the American universalism of providential origin from the radicalism of those who deny the equation between reason, universal moral values, the democracy founded upon them, and the United States, is actually part of a longer process. The outburst of post-secularity on the American public scene is a historic phenomenon that, because of the specific configuration assumed by the relationship between politics and religion in the United States, it seems to be structurally far less worrying than it might be elsewhere, starting with Italy. The real, serious problem in the case of the United States is the fact that the come back of “the religious” has taken the form of political nationalism and of a closed, intransigent culture. In view of the country’s global political role and its significance as the laboratory of extreme modernity – or post-modernity if one prefers – this has consequences that are difficult to see as auspicious. From this perspective, the essay addresses the question of the peculiar way in which the relationship between faith and the public sphere developed in the United States.
description: RSAJournal, V. 17 (2007): Joint Issue (vol. 17 and vol. 18) - Religion and Secularization in the United States of America
Classical simulations including electron correlations for sequential double ionization
Creators: name: Zhou, Yueming
name: Huang, Cheng
name: Liao, Qing
name: Lu, Peixiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With a classical ensemble model that including electron correlations during the whole ionization process, we investigated strong-field sequential double ionization of Ar by elliptically polarized pulses at the quantitative level. The experimentally observed intensity-dependent three-band or four-band structures in the ion momentum distributions are well reproduced with this classical model. More importantly, the experimentally measured ionization time of the second electrons [A. N. Pfeiffer et al., Nature Phys. 7, 428 (2011)], which can not be predicted by the standard independent-electron model, is quantitatively reproduced by this fully classical correlated model. The success of our work encourages classical description and interpretation of the complex multi-electron effects in strong field ionization where nonperturbative quantum approaches are currently not feasible.
Opening Remarks
Creators: name: Izzo, Donatella
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2007

description: Opening remarks to the Special Section "Religion and Secularization in the United States of America"
description: RSAJournal, V. 17 (2007): Joint Issue (vol. 17 and vol. 18) - Religion and Secularization in the United States of America
A Nation with the Soul of a Church? The Strange Career of Religion in America
Creators: name: Ostendorf, Berndt
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2005

description: American religiosity is a mystery to most Europeans. The difference derives from several historical contradictions: The founding myths of America were pre- and post-millenarian, based on predestination and on progress. Whereas the European revolutions stood opposed to religion, the American did not. While the First Amendment forbad the establishment of religion, it guaranteed each citizen the free exercise thereof. Though America became the spearhead of modernization (and hence, Max Weber would argue, of secularization) the lure of religious freedom made it the home to all "dissenting faiths of Europe" and to an indigenous religious revivalism. In short, the very separation of church and state caused the enormous flowering of religion in the free market of popular opinion.
description: RSAJournal, V. 15 (2005): Joint Issue (vol. 15 and vol. 16) - Special European Issue: American Spaces – Horizontal and Vertical
Luftbildarchäologie – Bodenstrukturen sichtbar gemacht und interpretiert
Creators: name: Song, Baoquan
name: Pollmann, Hans-Otto
name: Pfeffer, Ingo
Publisher: name: Archäologie in Westfalen-Lippe
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Archäologie in Westfalen-Lippe, ARCHÄOLOGIE IN WESTFALEN-LIPPE 2018 (2019)
The Rise and Fall of Womanhood
Creators: name: Dornan, Inge
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2005

description: This essay explores the ways in which the ideal and reality of womanhood in the colonial Low Country shaped the contradictory status of women in Georgia and South Carolina, promoting their independence and empowerment and simultaneously undermining their capacity as women to fully exercise it. Historians have traditionally divided their analyses of colonial women between those who achieved a relative degree of social and economic independence (Elizabeth Anthony Dexter, 1931) and those who did not (Mary Beth Norton, 1988). This study suggests that such neat dichotomies fail to disclose the complexity of women's status and experience in colonial Georgia and South Carolina. In both colonies, white women were perceived as vulnerable and dependent on men; but they were also expected to work alongside them to build the socio-economic foundations of the Low Country. Women cleared land, bought and sold slaves, managed farms and established businesses. And contemporaries fully supported them in their endeavours. The ideal and reality of womanhood in the Low Country thus shifted between raising women's socio-economic status (vertically) and, concomitantly, retreating from the full implications of this by insisting on feminine codes of conduct and behavior that limited their scope of influence and power. By embracing women's active role in the family and market economy, however, Low Country society disclosed the limits of patriarchal ideology in maintaining women's powerlessness and dependency.
description: RSAJournal, V. 15 (2005): Joint Issue (vol. 15 and vol. 16) - Special European Issue: American Spaces – Horizontal and Vertical
A Note on Mary Jo Salter's America
Creators: name: Bacigalupo, Massimo
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2005

description: Introduction to Mary Jo Salter's Poems
description: RSAJournal, V. 15 (2005): Joint Issue (vol. 15 and vol. 16) - Special European Issue: American Spaces – Horizontal and Vertical
Simultaneous Ultraviolet and Optical Emission-line Profiles of Quasars: Implications for Black Hole Mass Determination
Creators: name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Goldoni, Paolo
name: Dong, Xiao-Bo
name: Greene, Jenny E.
name: Ponti, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X-shooter instrument on the VLT was used to obtain spectra of seven moderate-redshift quasars simultaneously covering the spectral range 3000 Ang to 2.5 microns. At z ~ 1.5, most of the prominent broad emission lines in the ultraviolet to optical region are captured in their rest frame. We use this unique dataset, which mitigates complications from source variability, to intercompare the line profiles of C IV 1549, C III] 1909, Mg II 2800, and Halpha and evaluate their implications for black hole mass estimation. We confirm that Mg II and the Balmer lines share similar kinematics and that they deliver mutually consistent black hole mass estimates with minimal internal scatter (< 0.1 dex) using the latest virial mass estimators. Although no virial mass formalism has yet been calibrated for C III], this line does not appear promising for such an application because of the large spread of its velocity width compared to lines of both higher and lower ionization; part of the discrepancy may be due to the difficulty of deblending C III] from its neighboring lines. The situation for C IV is complex and, because of the limited statistics of our small sample, inconclusive. On the one hand, slightly more than half of our sample (4/7) have C IV line widths that correlate reasonably well with Halpha line widths, and their respective black hole mass estimates agree to within ~0.15 dex. The rest, on the other hand, exhibit exceptionally broad C IV profiles that overestimate virial masses by factors of 2-5 compared to Halpha. As C IV is widely used to study black hole demographics at high redshifts, we urgently need to revisit our analysis with a larger sample.
description: To appear in ApJ
After “The 25th Hour”
Creators: name: Scarpino, Cinzia
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2005

description: The aim of this paper is to consider David Benioff's novel The 25th Hour (2000) and the film version directed by Spike Lee (2002) in the light of their New York setting, examining how the intersection of the two space-time axes — the horizontal and the vertical — can be related to the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. Whereas the representation of the horizontal cityscape comes along with hope and dream, the vertical direction entails a catastrophic image of New York City. The paper suggests that Benioff's and Lee's rendering of pastoral projections and cataclysmic pulls (through the use of representative strategies that hark back to Modernism) can be viewed as latter-day versions of abiding American obsessions: the fear of impending chaos as related to the outburst of social struggles that has always loomed large within U.S. urban culture and sociology, climaxing during the Gilded Age and in the 1920s and 1930s.
description: RSAJournal, V. 15 (2005): Joint Issue (vol. 15 and vol. 16) - Special European Issue: American Spaces – Horizontal and Vertical
Ghost free Massive Gravity in the Stückelberg language
Creators: name: de Rham, Claudia
name: Gabadadze, Gregory
name: Tolley, Andrew
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: Massive Gravity in four dimensions has been shown to be free of the Boulware-Deser (BD) ghost in the ADM language for a specific choice of mass terms. We show here how this is consistent with the Stückelberg language beyond the decoupling limit, and how the constraint required to remove the BD ghost arises in this framework nonperturbatively, without the use of field redefinitions. We emphasize a subtlety in obtaining this constraint, that has been overlooked in previous literature. In both the ADM and Stückelberg formalisms the vanishing of the determinant of a Hessian guarantees the absence of the BD ghost.
Writing the Land
Creators: name: Schiavini, Cinzia
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2005

description: This paper focuses on the meaning of horizontality and verticality in William Least Heat-Moon's PrairyErth (1991). Part travelogue, part ethnographic research, Heat-Moon's text explores the history and geography of Chase County, a region of 733 square miles and about 3,000 citizens in the middle of the Flint Hills, Kansas. Starting from the concept of "deep travel" that PrairyErth embodies, the paper examines the construction of vertical and horizontal cultural maps, related to the synchronic/diachronic reading of space enacted by the author. The essay is set out in three main sections, that investigate the theme of individual and collective memory, the opposition between European and Native American cultural cartographies, and the relation between open/closed geographies and open/closed textual spaces.
description: RSAJournal, V. 15 (2005): Joint Issue (vol. 15 and vol. 16) - Special European Issue: American Spaces – Horizontal and Vertical
Study of flare energy release using events with numerous type III-like bursts in microwaves
Creators: name: Meshalkina, N. S.
name: Altyntsev, A. T.
name: Zhdanov, D. A.
name: Lesovoi, S. V.
name: Kochanov, A. A.
name: Yihua, Yan
name: Chengming, Tan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analysis of narrowband drifting of type III-like structures in radio bursts dynamic spectra allows to obtain unique information about primary energy release mechanisms in solar flares. The SSRT spatially resolved images and a high spectral and temporal resolution allow direct determination not only the positions of its sources but also the exciter velocities along the flare loop. Practically, such measurements are possible during some special time intervals when the SSRT (about 5.7 GHz) is observing the flare region in two high-order fringes; thus, two 1D scans are recorded simultaneously at two frequency bands. The analysis of type III-like bursts recorded during the flare 14 Apr 2002 is presented. Using-muliwavelength radio observations recorded by SSRT, SBRS, NoRP, RSTN we study an event with series of several tens of drifting microwave pulses with drift rates in the range from -7 to 13 GHz/s. The sources of the fast-drifting bursts were located near the top of the flare loop in a volume of a few Mm in size. The slow drift of the exciters along the flare loop suggests a high pitch-anisotropy of the emitting electrons.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, Solar Physics, in press, 2012
Horizontal and Vertical Themes in Joan Didion's Memoir “Where I Was From”
Creators: name: Scatamacchia, Cristina
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2005

description: The paper analyzes Where I Was From, by Californian journalist and novelist Joan Didion, as well as a number of autobiographical essays and interviews. Published in 2003, the book is a complex and challenging text, pardy a memoir of her family's pioneer past and partly a reassessment of the history of California. It is a kind of bookend to Didion's earlier musings on her native state and it investigates horizontal themes (the pioneers' crossing of the American continent as well as the author's personal crossings, that is, her recurrent moves back and forth between California and New York) and vertical themes (the role of the federal government as the main cause for social and political change in California from the Gold Rush to the present). Such horizontal and vertical themes, intersecting both Didion's life and her books, emerge here through the description of her ambivalent, often painful, relationship with a set of specific Western ideas that over the years she has come to reject, and through an endearing recollection of her family past, including her women ancestors.
description: RSAJournal, V. 15 (2005): Joint Issue (vol. 15 and vol. 16) - Special European Issue: American Spaces – Horizontal and Vertical
Crossing the Voice, Crisscrossing the Text
Creators: name: Roudeau, Cécile
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2005

description: "Sunday at the Mintons" ushers Sylvia Plath into the world of letters as a virtuoso story-teller and an acerbic poet. Horizontal by necessity, her prose is disheveled by the stubborn assaults of a poetical urge that questions its linearity and challenges its laws. Spacializing the dialectics between genre and gender, the narrative pits Henry Minton against his sister Elizabeth, the down-to-earth, matter-of-fact brother against the fanciful extravagant spinster who dreams of floating into the blue. It behoves her to space out the narrative line, cut the tether between words and things and, within the story's cracks and the breaches of the symbolic, to release writing from the ponderous demands of referentiality. But amidst these cracks, a voice tentatively emerges which cannot hold as it yields again to the weighty conventions of the referential, the diktats of a humdrum linearity. Plath's early story not .only questions the grounds for reading, it also defies the sense of an ending. Racked by doubt, crossed by its inner contradictions, “Sunday at the Mintons’,” this article argues, stages the ceaseless transactions between the demands of the story genre and the temptation of an unfettered poetic revue, permitting, for the first time in Plath's career, the surfacing of "a voice of her own," however crossed, at the intersection of the vertical and the horizontal.
description: RSAJournal, V. 15 (2005): Joint Issue (vol. 15 and vol. 16) - Special European Issue: American Spaces – Horizontal and Vertical
Exploration of the electric spin polarizability of the neutron in lattice QCD
Creators: name: Engelhardt, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A scheme to calculate the electric spin polarizability of the neutron, based on a four-point function approach to the background field method, is presented. The connected contributions to this spin polarizability are evaluated within a mixed action calculation employing domain wall valence quarks on MILC asqtad sea quark ensembles. Results are reported for two pion masses, 759 MeV and 357 MeV.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures; talk presented at the 29th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2011), Squaw Valley, California, USA, July 10-16, 2011
Henry James and Vittor Carpaccio
Creators: name: Coslovi, Marina
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2005

description: The paper investigates the theme of the Vertical and the Horizontal in Art by examining James's relation with Vittor Carpaccio, an artist he extols in the "Venice" essay (1882) in Italian Hours by declaring that "there is something ridiculous in talking of Venice without making him almost the refrain," but of whom, surprisingly, readers find no trace in James's Venetian fiction. The Horizontal in Art — the depiction of the tangible world — is treated in relation to the vertical religiosity of Carpaccio's art, which becomes in James the transcendent dimension of the art of writing. Since James's love for Carpaccio was deeply influenced by John Ruskin's "discovery" of the same painter, the paper focuses also on the influence of the elder writer's works on James's view of the lagoon city and its art.
description: RSAJournal, V. 15 (2005): Joint Issue (vol. 15 and vol. 16) - Special European Issue: American Spaces – Horizontal and Vertical
Taking the “Organic” View
Creators: name: Rubeo, Ugo
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2005

description: The four sections of The American Scene devoted to New York present the reader with a highly contrasted account of the city's urban renewal, which Henry James deeply resents. The clash between what James sees as an exasperated modernity, and the receding memory of the old town is dramatized through an insisted opposition between images of vertical and horizontal expansion used as a paradigm of the conflict that individual commercial aggressiveness is waging against a rapidly vanishing sense of social concern. James's critique of modern urban planning's subservience to interest and greed is countered by his effort to develop an organic view of the city context as a way to reestablish the preeminence of a strong social ethos.
description: RSAJournal, V. 15 (2005): Joint Issue (vol. 15 and vol. 16) - Special European Issue: American Spaces – Horizontal and Vertical
Editor's Foreword
Creators: name: Maffi, Mario
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2005

description: Introduction to the Special Section “Special European Issue: American Spaces – Horizontal and Vertical”
description: RSAJournal, V. 15 (2005): Joint Issue (vol. 15 and vol. 16) - Special European Issue: American Spaces – Horizontal and Vertical
A visitor centre for Nose Hill Park
Creators: name: Crothers, Robert John
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: SB 485 C34 C76 1981
subject: Parks - Alberta - Calgary - Nose Hill Park
subject: Calgary (Alta.) - Parks - Nose Hill Park
subject: Nose Hill Park (Calgary)

description: Bibliography: p. 59-60.
Notes on/in Paul Auster's “Oracle Night”
Creators: name: Masiero Marcolin, Pia
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2003

description: Oracle Night, Paul Auster's twelfth novel, is analysed focusing on the author's peculiar paraftextual choices. Drawing on Gerard Genette's seminal grammar of the paratext, Seuils, Auster's usage of the title, the dedication and especially of footnotes is here explored as a means to understand some aspects of postmodern referentiality and textual self-sufficiency, such as the relationship between the code of the real and the code of the fictional and the pact with the reader.
description: RSAJournal, V. 14 (2003): Poetry and History
Politics as Commodity From Eisenhower to Bush Jr.
Creators: name: Fasce, Ferdinando
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2003

description: The increasing role played by the so-called "political consultants" and "campaigns strategists," applying marketing techniques to promote candidates in current elections, points to a serious gap in the historical literature of U.S. political culture. Surprisingly understudied remains the historical background of this recent development, which is rooted in the evolution of commercial communication over the second half of the twentieth century. The long-term perspective adopted in the present article shows how, and with what effects on public discourse, admen, PR, and "political consultants" came to dominate presidential campaigning and made effective inroads into governance as well.
description: RSAJournal, V. 14 (2003): Poetry and History
Almost closed 1-forms
Creators: name: Pandharipande, R.
name: Thomas, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13D10, 14N35, 14J32

description: We construct an algebraic almost closed 1-form with zero scheme not expressible (even locally) as the critical locus of a holomorphic function on a nonsingular variety. The result answers a question of Behrend-Fantechi. We correct here an error in our paper [MPT] where an incorrect construction with the same claimed properties was proposed.
description: 16 pages
The synergy between revising and composing in the total writing act: a case study of the revision processes of three college students
Creators: name: Crowley, Gillian H.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: PN 175 C76 1981 Fiche
subject: Rhetoric
subject: Rhetoric - Philosophy
subject: English language - Rhetoric
subject: Style, Literary

description: Bibliography: p. 209-216.
Using Superposition Codebooks and Partial Decode and Forward in Low SNR Parallel Relay Networks
Creators: name: Parvaresh, Farzad
name: Etkin, Raul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A new communication scheme for Gaussian parallel relay networks based on superposition coding and partial decoding at the relays is presented. Some specific examples are proposed in which two codebook layers are superimposed. The first level codebook is constructed with symbols from a binary or ternary alphabet while the second level codebook is composed of codewords chosen with Gaussian symbols. The new communication scheme is a generalization of decode-and-forward, amplify-and-forward, and bursty-amplify-and-forward. The asymptotic low SNR regime is studied using achievable rates and minimum energy-per-bit as performance metrics. It is shown that the new scheme outperforms all previously known schemes for some channels and parameter ranges.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Living outside the Blast
Creators: name: Dowling, Gregory
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2003

description: Andrew Hudgins published his narrative poem, After the Lost War, in 1988. This essay attempts to see whether this work, set in and after the Civil War, can be considered as belonging to a tradition of American historical narrative verse. In the 19th century various poets endeavoured to bestow dignity on episodes of American history by celebrating them in verse, but few of these works are now considered canonical. Hudgins's poem is perhaps more fruitfully to be seen as a work by a contemporary writer who has learned the lessons of Modernism, with its emphasis on concentration of effect, but who is nonetheless attracted to the possibilities of extended narrative. The success of his work depends to a great degree on his adoption of an intensely focused point of view and on his handling of the narrative voice; by convincing us of the reality of his central character, he involves us directly in the historical episodes he so sensitively evokes.
description: RSAJournal, V. 14 (2003): Poetry and History
Pair excitations and parameters of state of imbalanced Fermi gases at finite temperatures
Creators: name: Klimin, S. N.
name: Tempere, J.
name: Devreese, Jeroen P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectra of low-lying pair excitations for an imbalanced two-component superfluid Fermi gas are analytically derived within the path-integral formalism taking into account Gaussian fluctuations about the saddle point. The spectra are obtained for nonzero temperatures, both with and without imbalance, and for arbitrary interaction strength. On the basis of the pair excitation spectrum, we have calculated the thermodynamic parameters of state of cold fermions and the first and second sound velocities. The parameters of pair excitations show a remarkable agreement with the Monte Carlo data and with experiment.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Still Life with a Machine
Creators: name: Marano, Salvatore
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2003

description: Focused on the paradigmatic shift brought about by the typewriter on the compositional habits of Cummings, the paper explores the interrelations between the history of technology and his poetry. A poet and a painter in the belated tradition of the Preraphaelites, Cummings was nevertheless fascinated by the poetics of the machine advocated by Modernism. As a result, he developed the unique features of his style through the relentless exploitation of what Heidegger called an "intermediate thing between a tool and a machine." As a matter of fact, the prosody for the eye of his visual pieces is a direct consequence of the restrictions imposed by the typewriter. The page itself, used as a unit of composition, becomes the site where semantic units take form in patterns whose spacing, punctuation and lettering are dictated by the mechanical pace of the carriage. The passage from typescript to typesetting conceals but does not erase the nature of Cummings's operation; however, the same act of concealment reveals the unresolved tension that characterizes his poetics. Always suspended between an inner "arch-Romanticism" (Gioia) and an outer iconoclasm, his poetry of the machine and yet not machine-like stands at the crossroad between the objectivist stance of the Pound-Williams line and the exasperated lyricism of the anarchist-individualist.
description: RSAJournal, V. 14 (2003): Poetry and History
Taking the Potomac Cowbirdlike
Creators: name: A. Nardi, Paola
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2003

description: Since her college years at Bryn Mawr, where she majored in both History and Politics, Marianne Moore was always extremely conscious of contemporary society and deeply immersed in history. In this essay I focus on Moore's relation to American history through the analysis of two poems, "New York" and "Virginia Britannia," that I consider as parallel both for their theme and communicative strategy. Although one is short and the other rather long, one is centred in the New York area and the other in Jamestown and Virginia, one was published in 1921 and the other in 1935, both works offer an overview of the development of the United States from the colonial years to Moore's day, most interestingly using space as a tool to present and relate the past
description: RSAJournal, V. 14 (2003): Poetry and History
Age differences in the effects of reverberation and pauses on sentence intelligibility
Creators: name: Davidson, Heather
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: RF 294.5 S6 D37 1980 Fiche
subject: Speech perception - Testing
subject: Audiometry, Speech
subject: Aged, Deaf
subject: Presbycusis

description: Bibliography: p. 76-81.
“Empty Silences”
Creators: name: M. Casella, Stefano
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2003

description: Eliot's "Silence" (1910) and Montale's "Forse un mattino andando in un'aria di vetro" (1923) record all extraordinary experience, a privileged epiphany, in short a "moment in and out of time," typical both of the young poet of St. Louis and of his younger Genoese counterpart, in their early search for the absolute. After giving an account of the poems' critical reception, the article stresses the mythical theme of initiation. The man who has undergone such an experience, like the "mystes" of classic tradition, is completely transformed by it. The essay also offers a stylistic, thematic, and inter­textual analysis of the poems, and argues that they prefigure much of the poetics of Eliot and Montale. Their beginning was already inscribed their end.
description: RSAJournal, V. 14 (2003): Poetry and History
Les figures spatiales du moi chez Montaigne
Creators: name: Denysenko, Maria
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: PQ 1643 D92 1980 Fiche
subject: Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais
subject: Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 - Criticism and interpretation

description: Bibliography: p. 67-70.
Sonnet vs. Sonnet
Creators: name: Francini, Antonella
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2003

description: The essay analyses the sonnet form as practiced by African American poets in the course of the 20th century. It focuses on the way they have used the fourteen-line structure, turning it into a vehicle of communication, a forum for dynamic argumentation of social and political themes. In making it one of their chosen modes of expression, African American poets have succeeded in recovering the sonnet's original function, giving this metrical form new vitality. Its evolution is traced from the Romantics to contemporary authors, with special attention to the "protest sonnets" of Claude McKay, the war sonnets of Gwendolyn Brooks, and recent experimentations by Rita Dove and Yusef Komunyakaa.
description: RSAJournal, V. 14 (2003): Poetry and History
Impacts of insecticide exposure on bumblebee behaviour in a warming world
Creators: name: Kenna, Daniel
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: With ongoing agricultural land-use intensification and climate change, important functional groups of organisms, including insect pollinators, are being simultaneously and ubiquitously exposed to both pesticides and changing temperatures. Given the notable ongoing declines in insect pollinators, understanding how these stressors affect aspects of key functional behaviours underpinning fitness and pollination service provision is of global ecological and economic importance. Importantly, a critical but understudied step in evaluating pesticide risk is to understand how environmental temperature modulates pesticide effects on these behaviours. Through empirical lab experiments on a key wild pollinator, the bumblebee Bombus terrestris, I quantified the temperature dependent effects of insecticide exposure on individual flight and general mobility. Neonicotinoid exposure dramatically impaired flight motivation and endurance, and these same performance traits were also found to be highly sensitive to environmental temperature. However, the effect of neonicotinoid exposure varied depending on post-exposure temperature, with impacts on flight being enhanced under warmer conditions and impacts on food consumption, walking, and general responsiveness being enhanced under cooler conditions. The hazard posed by insecticides to insect pollinators may therefore vary both temporally and spatially, with impairment to flight and mobility traits likely constraining colony foraging potential and diminishing pollination service capabilities. Interestingly, the same effects were not seen across a different class of insecticide, with the new to market sulfoximine insecticide, sulfoxaflor, showing no detectable effect on any measure of mobility regardless of temperature when applied at comparable concentrations. The findings of this thesis suggest both the choice of insecticide and timing of exposure need to be considered in farming practices. Additionally, my findings provide crucial information for advising insecticide risk assessment protocols, developing mitigative and conservation action, and above all understanding which possible climate regions in the world insect pollinators are most at risk from insecticide exposure.
Some Singular Limit Laminations of Embedded Minimal Planar Domains
Creators: name: Bernstein, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10

description: In this paper we give two examples of sequences of embedded minimal planar domains in $\mathbb{R}^3$ which converge to singular laminations of $\mathbb{R}^3$. In contrast with the situation for embedded minimal disks, these examples do not arise from complete embedded minimal planar domains and highlight some of the subtleties inherent in understanding refined properties of embedded minimal planar domains.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure
Industrial evolution of techology in the United States economy (1947-70): an empirical application of the general production model
Creators: name: Devchand, Vinodrai Maganlal
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: HC 106.5 D45 1980 Fiche
subject: United States - Economic conditions - 1945-
subject: United States - Industries

description: Bibliography: p. 189-204.
Ecosistemas de prácticas abiertas
Creators: name: García-Peñalvo, F. J.
Publisher: name: Grupo GRIAL
Year: 2023
Subjects: Conocimiento Abierto
Ciencia Abierta
Educación Abierta
Prácticas Abiertas
Ecosistema de Prácticas Abiertas

description: Conferencia impartida en la Estancia Internacional organizada por la Cátedra UNESCO Movimiento Educativo Abierto para América Latina 2023 y que se desarrolla entre el 9 y el 20 de enero de 2023 en el Tecnológico de Monterrey (México).

 

El objetivo de esta conferencia es introducir a los asistentes en el ecosistema del movimiento abierto para el desarrollo de prácticas abiertas en el contexto de la Ciencia y la Educación Abiertas.
“Gone-to-Kansas”
Creators: name: Thompson-Rizzo, Patricia
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2003

description: Written when the poet was 25, and as far as we know when she had composed only a handful of poems, this Emily Dickinson letter is analysed in order to demonstrate its intrinsic value as an outstanding instance of her early production and literary skill. The 1856 letter displays features, themes, concepts and wordings that are to reappear fully developed in her later work. This text describes the family's move from North Pleasant Street back to the larger mansion on Main Street, where they had originally lived until the poet was thirteen years old. The move, ambitiously pursued by her father, Squire Dickinson, is hyperbolically described as a major enterprise and practically compared to the relocation of emigrants to the strife-torn Kansas territory. Its imaginative critique of America's expansionist aims and the misguided optimism of Antebellum America provides an example of the way Dickinson subtly engaged in the feminist discourse defined by Amy Kaplan as "Manifest Domesticity."
description: RSAJournal, V. 14 (2003): Poetry and History