cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Examining the associations between socioeconomic status and school-day dietary intake among Vancouver children and adolescents
Creators: name: Ahmadi, Naseam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Background: The majority of Canadian children and adolescents (9 to 18 years old) are not meeting Canada’s Food Guide recommendations for healthy eating. Moreover, evidence suggests that SES and dietary quality are positively associated. Yet little is known about the influence of parents, peers, and food purchasing practices on the associations between SES and dietary intake or about whether these associations are pertinent in the school context. The primary objective of this study is therefore to explore associations between SES and school-day dietary intake among Vancouver youth, before and after controlling for psychosocial factors and food purchasing practices. Methods: In 2012, grade 5-8 students (n=950 from 26 schools) completed a school-based survey and reported school-day intake of vegetables, whole grains, low fat milk, packaged snack foods, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). Multivariate logistic regression examined associations between parent education and food security status with dietary intake, before and after controlling for peer modeling and parental normative beliefs of dietary intake, and frequency of purchasing food on school days. Results: Compared to students whose parents completed high school or less, students whose parents completed some college were significantly more likely to consume vegetables daily on school days (unadjusted OR=1.85, 95% CI=1.06, 3.22). Compared to food insecure students, food secure students were significantly less likely to consume SSB daily on school days (unadjusted OR=0.51, 95% CI=0.28, 0.93). Both vegetable and SSB intake were not significantly associated with SES measures in final adjusted models. In adjusted models, compared to students whose parents completed high school or less, students whose parents completed college or university were significantly less likely to consume packaged snacks daily on school days (adjusted OR=0.61, 95% CI=0.42, 0.90). Parent education and food security status were not significantly associated with the remaining dietary intake outcomes. Conclusions: SES was significantly associated with three of five dietary outcomes; however, we did not find that either SES measure was consistently a significant determinant of dietary intake across foods categories. Overall, there is room for improvement in dietary intake of Vancouver children and adolescents on school days and school nutrition interventions would benefit all students.
Interplay of disorder and interaction in Majorana quantum wires
Creators: name: Lobos, Alejandro M.
name: Lutchyn, Roman M.
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the interplay between disorder and interaction in one-dimensional topological superconductors which carry localized Majorana zero-energy states. Using Abelian bosonization and the perturbative renormalization group (RG) approach, we obtain the RG-flow and the associated scaling dimensions of the parameters and identify the critical points of the low-energy theory. We predict a quantum phase transition from a topological superconducting phase to a non-topological localized phase, and obtain the phase boundary between these two phases as a function of the electron-electron interaction and the disorder strength in the nanowire. Based on an instanton analysis which incorporates the effect of disorder, we also identify a large regime of stability of the Majorana-carrying topological phase in the parameter space of the model.
description: New version includes a section and an appendix with a detailed study on the effect of interaction and disorder on the stability of Majorana end-states. 6 pages, 1 figure
Black Orpheus, Barack Obama’s Governmentality
Creators: name: Pease, Donald
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: exceptionalism; Obama

description: This essay constitutes a preliminary effort to explain the state fantasy with which Barack Obama hegemonized an alternative to the biopolitical settlement normalizing George W. Bush’s Global War on Terror (Pease 2009). In what follows, I intend to argue that Obama has not utterly displaced Bush’s Homeland State of Exception but that Obama’s governmentality presupposes it as the structuring logic through which he transformed the US state’s relationship with domestic and planetary peoples. I will be interested in particular in the role that Obama’s complex negotiation with the congeries of racial fantasies that he found condensed in the figure and the film Black Orpheus played in Barack Obama’s governmentality.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: NUMERO SPECIALE 9/11/2011
“Temperate and Nearly Cloudless”: The 9/11 Commission Report as Postmodern Pastiche
Creators: name: Nadel, Alan
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: “Tuesday, September 11, 2001 dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States”. Thus begins Chapter One of the 9/11 Commission Report, a chapter that bears the title, “‘We have Some Planes’”. As with all good pop fiction, the reader awaits to see what this quote means, although we know already that it will mark a crucial moment, one that renders the innocuous urgent, or gives meaning to a startling chaos of coincidence. Pop culture has taught us the formula well: Everything looks fine; high school kids sip pop and dance in front of the juke box; Ole Doc Jones is mowin’ the lawn while Mrs. Jones makes lemonade. BUT strange noises have been heard in the cellar; no one can find the cat; Mr. Grundy insists he saw flashing lights last night, but no one believes him because Mrs. Grundy says he’s been acting strange ever since she flushed his Viagra; mysteriously, all the clocks in Indianapolis have started running fast or slow by exactly 24 hours. Then we hear the message on the police radio: “we’ve got some planes…as large as football fields hovering over every Wall-Mart in the nation”. At last someone will believe the geeky newspaper boy and his big brother’s girlfriend, who knew all along he was on to something. Let’s hope it’s not too late.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: NUMERO SPECIALE 9/11/2011
A relativistic model for Strange Quark Star
Creators: name: Kalam, Mehedi
name: Usmani, Anisul Ain
name: Rahaman, Farook
name: Hossein, Sk. Monowar
name: Karar, Indrani
name: Sharma, Ranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a spherically symmetric and anisotropic model for strange quark stars within the framework of MIT Bag model. Though the model is found to comply with all the physical requirements of a realistic star satisfying a strange matter equation of state (EOS), the estimated values the Bag constant for different strange star candidates like Her X-1, SAX J 1808.4-3658 and 4U 1820-30, clearly indicate that the Bag constant need not necessarily lie within the range of 60-80 MeV fm$^{-3}$ as claimed in the literature.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures. Major revision has been done
Coppie in dissolvenza: Don DeLillo e lo spazio psichico del trauma
Creators: name: Daniele, Daniela
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: This essay discusses the fictional work conceived by Don DeLillo in the aftermath of September 11th. It stresses its intimate dialogue with the coeval visual arts, and in particular with the traumatic nature of performance art. It also insists on the ability of the contemporary historical novel to provide a private and inner background to the most controversial events in American history. In so doing, DeLillo's factual fiction rivals other documentary and reproducible forms of historical representation in its attempt to go beyond the surface of things, and point to a media-conscious future willing to resist the constant states of emergency manufactured in the age of terror.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: NUMERO SPECIALE 9/11/2011
title: DEPRECATED: Barriers to creativity in the conceptual phase of engineering design : perceptions of designers at Rolls Royce Aerospace (Bristol) in new projects engineering
Creators: name: Carkett, Rachel Amanda Jane
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2002

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/693 on 03.04.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: Anecdotal evidence from experienced engineers suggest that barriers to creativity are often due to the limitations of current technology, methods and support systems (Baird, Moore, & Jagodzinski, 2000). The aim of this research was to explore what the perceived barriers to creativity are and how they are circumvented by design engineers working in New Projects Engineering (NPE), Rolls-Royce Aerospace (Bristol). Semi-structured interviews with four employees working in engineering design comprised a Scoping Study. This provided a general overview of the major issues perceived by the design engineers regarding barriers to creativity and resulted in six themes being identified. These themes were used as a framework for a Design Group Interviews Study that followed. Sixteen engineers comprising project managers, team leaders, experienced designers and new designers, graduate employees and trainees were interviewed using the same method. Using grounded theory to analyse the data, sixteen categories were drawn from the data. Confirmation of the findings was achieved through presentations and workshops with different groups from Rolls-Royce, and the development of an Interrelationship Digraph illustrating the relationships between the categories. The second phase of the research focused on the phenomena under current working conditions. In the Tracking Study interview diaries recorded with thirteen design engineers over an eight week period highlighted the salient issues relating to their perceived barriers to creativity. Thirteen categories (some of which could be mapped onto the previous categories and some which were new) were drawn from the data. Validation of the categories was achieved through direct observations of two design engineers in the week long Shadowing Study and completed this phase of the research. Mapping and interpretation of the findings in relation to the literature obtained further verification. From these analyses it was becoming evident that perceived barriers to creativity were present at many different layers of the enterprise from a macro, organisational level to the micro-environment of the individual design engineer. The final phase entailed the development of a conditional/consequential matrix model to illustrate the relationship between the macro and micro conditions, under which barriers to creativity were investigated, leading to the development of a theory. The final conclusions and suggestions for improvements demonstrate the relationship between high/low barriers and high/low creativity. The research has shown the benefits of taking an interdisciplinary socio-technical approach and has highlighted the importance and relevance of the social dimension, as well as the technological, in the investigation of engineering design.
title: Mandegari (Māndigārī): Semantic Exploration of the Enduring Qualities of Historic Places
Creators: name: Maghreby, Shahead
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2025

description: The paper explores the semantic potential of the Farsi term mandegari (māndigārī) to describe historic places within the context of built environment. This word holds significant meaning for characterizing the attributes of different phenomena. To start, a comprehensive review of Farsi literature highlights its utilization in scholarly research, where scholars and researchers have employed this term to express the enduring qualities of historic places. The paper delves into the terminology of mandegari in Farsi dictionaries, exploring its various nuances and associations. The surface definition of mandegari is identified as meaning someone or something who stays in a place, possessing stability and durability. Conventional content analysis is then employed to extract themes and sub-themes from dictionary definitions and examples. In the next step, the research extends to an examination of peer-reviewed Farsi articles on built environment as a case study, using summative content analysis to unearth the semantic dimensions of mandegari. From this analysis, themes of positivity-neutrality, objectivity-subjectivity, and perenniality-metamorphosis emerged. While the connotations of mandegari are predominantly positive, the term also contains objective and subjective dimensions. Then, the dual aspects of perenniality and metamorphosis are explored to understand how places evolve over time while maintaining their essential attributes. By illuminating the convergence of these seemingly opposite concepts, the paper shows how they coexist to shape a place’s character. The paper also highlights a gap in the literature on built environment concerning a precise understanding of the concept of mandegari in the Farsi language. It aims to encompass shared meanings and experiences of this concept among scholars. By exploring these tensions and providing a thorough exploration of the semantic dimensions of mandegari, the research contributes to the field’s theoretical framework. The study aligns with the tradition of introducing new concepts to enrich architectural discourse, like how Christian Norberg-Schulz introduced the concept of genius loci (spirit of the place) from ancient Roman culture. In essence, the research provides a valuable exploration of the nuanced meanings and implications of mandegari in the context of historic places.
Triangulation and Gender Perspectives in ‘Falling Man’ by Don DeLillo
Creators: name: Abe, Noemi
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Falling Man; Don DeLillo; Gender Perspective; 9/11 rhetoric; prolonged adolescence; triangulation.

description: Falling Man has often been read as the tale of of an American family trying to reinstate their ordinary lives after the 9/11 attacks, and their inability to do so due to the main protagonist’s entrapment in a traumatic state. I would argue instead that Falling Man adheres to a tradition of representations of masculinity distinguished by repressed grief and prolonged adolescence.
Susannah Radstone argues that the rhetorical response to 9/11 by the Bush administration is based on the opposition of two father figures: “the 'chastened' but powerful 'good' patriarchal father” Vs. “the 'bad' archaic father”. She explains: “In this Manichean fantasy can be glimpsed the continuing battle between competing versions of masculinity” (2002:459) that leaves women on the margins. The battle of the fathers of Bush’s rhetoric is counterposed in Falling Man by a battle between two men that stands for an unaccomplished fatherhood. Furthermore, the dualistic vision engendered by post-9/11 rhetoric and reflected in the novel should be evaluated in a trilateral dimension, given that at its core lies a triangulation built upon three stereotypical representations: the white middle-class man; the Arab terrorist; and a composite character in the middle, the woman, who shifts from ally, to victim, to a plausible supporter of the enemy.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: NUMERO SPECIALE 9/11/2011
Anisotropy in the matter distribution beyond the baryonic acoustic oscillation scale
Creators: name: Faltenbacher, A.
name: Li, Cheng
name: Wang, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tracing the cosmic evolution of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale with galaxy two point correlation functions is currently the most promising approach to detect dark energy at early times. A number of ongoing and future experiments will measure the BAO peak with unprecedented accuracy. We show based on a set of N-Body simulations that the matter distribution is anisotropic out to ~150 Mpc/h, far beyond the BAO scale of ~100M pc/h, and discuss implications for the measurement of the BAO. To that purpose we use alignment correlation functions, i.e., cross correlation functions between high density peaks and the overall matter distribution measured along the orientation of the peaks and perpendicular to it. The correlation function measured along (perpendicular to) the orientation of high density peaks is enhanced (reduced) by a factor of ~2 compared to the conventional correlation function and the location of the BAO peak shifts towards smaller (larger) scales if measured along (perpendicular to) the orientation of the high density peaks. Similar effects are expected to shape observed galaxy correlation functions at BAO scales.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
title: DEPRECATED: DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MATRIX FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Creators: name: Sindi, Safaa
Publisher: name: Plymouth University
Year: 2016

description: With the rise of globalisation, more of the world’s cargo depends on sea transportation, spanning countries and continents, increasing the complexity of Supply Chain (SC) operations. Multinational companies and SMEs have faced various challenges adapting to the changing environment. This research explores these complexities and aims to identify the most suitable SC and logistics strategy that companies can incorporate into their business framework. In achieving this, a Multi-Dimensional Matrix (MDM) is developed, firstly by analysing the development of SC and logistics strategies throughout time and dividing them into seven eras. The five earliest eras describe the emergence and development of SCs, while the last two eras (six and seven), establish the literature for the MDM, which is tested for its capability to diagnose and recommend suitable strategies for companies. A conceptual framework for an interactive web-based MDM is designed to illustrate the development of the model and its capability to allow companies to insert their own variables, creating a tailored MDM unique to their company. The MDM incorporates most characteristics of the SC, allocating them into a matrix which has four quarters (Agile, Lean, Leagile and Basic SC). The data collection consists of mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) approaches. The qualitative approach is Fuzzy Delphi, where statements are based on the literature, and the experts’ responses are analysed using statistical quantitative methods. The consensus from the Fuzzy Delphi are translated into (If-Then) fuzzy rules, then written as JavaScript and HTML, providing the MDM’s interactive capability. The testing is conducted through semi-structured interviews with a UK-based, global car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover. The results indicate the usefulness of a diagnostic MDM tool able to recommend a suitable SC and logistics strategies, while allowing companies to choose, tailor and amend options according to their specific requirements; thus allowing companies to analyse and further understand their SC and logistics framework.
title: DEPRECATED: Tidal stream energy
Creators: name: Evans, E. M.
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1987

description: An investigation into the feasibility of tidal stream energy extraction is presented. The first part of the work is concerned with the economics, technology and costing of free stream tide mills for the deployment off the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney. Future fossil fuel prices are represented by three uniform rates of increase corresponding to overall increases of 200%, 100% and 50% in a 25 year period. Fuel replacement arguments indicate potential levels of investment in tide mills, pe r rate d kW, of £2040, £1574 and £1340 for Jersey and Guernsey and £3269, £2521 and £2148 for Alderney, for each of the above rates of fuel price rise respectively. An outline specification of a device rated at 500kW is costed at 2187£/kW(rated) using a top-down approach combined with costs from analogous applications. Preliminary consideration of resource characteristics indicates the potential for improved economics via a contribution to firm power with the exploitation of pairs of tide mills situated in out-of-phase streams. In the second part of the work the general problems of tidal stream prediction and description are discussed and a new approach suggested. Tidal streams are modelled using a high resolution numerical scheme. The model developed involves the solution of the full y non-linear, depth averaged hydrodynamic equations with a grid spacing of 740m. The scheme includes a simplified technique to model coastal drying regions. Results of modelling indicate the locations of a number of sites off each island where the potential power output per device exceeds 300kW(rated). Levels of deployment are discussed for each of the islands and in the cases of Jersey and Guernsey levels of 2MW are suggested and a contribution to firm power demonstrated.
The insistent realism of Don DeLillo’s ‘Falling Man’ and Paul Auster’s ‘Man in the Dark’
Creators: name: Panzani, Ugo
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: American literature; 9/11; Don DeLillo; Falling Man; Paul Auster; Man in the Dark

description: Many scholars considered that the fictionalization of September 11 marked the apotheosis of the postmodern era of images and perception. At the same time, the WTC collapse inspired a kind of post 9/11 fiction characterised by strong realistic descriptions. The aim of this article is to understand how Don DeLillo's Falling Man (2007) and Paul Auster's Man in The Dark (2008) tried to find a way to present, through a complex recourse to realism, the uncanny events of 9/11 and its prolonged aftermath that culminated in the subsequent horrors of the Iraq war. The insistent assertion of a proper representation of the traumatic events explictly contrasts the evasive literary narrations and the imaginary counter-narratives that might erode the relevance of the events. Furthermore, the detailed representation of these tragedies opposes itself to the equally insistent aesthetics of terror, through a revaluation of what the American literary theorist Ihab Hassan correctly defined (with no religious implications) a “postmodern aesthetic of trust”, that “brings us to a fiduciary realism, a realism that redefines the relation between subject and object, self and other, in terms of profound trust.”
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: NUMERO SPECIALE 9/11/2011
Bacteriophage-Clostridioides difficile interactions: From the impact of phages on bacterial virulence to new therapeutic strategies.
Creators: name: Wolfromm, Auguste
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Clostridioides difficile
subject: Infections
subject: Bacteriophages
subject: Phage Therapy
subject: Virulence Factors
subject: Microbiota
subject: Virome
subject: Biological Coevolution
subject: Bioengineering
subject: Synthetic Biology

description: Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI) are a major cause of nosocomial post-antibiotic diarrhoea. The pathogen's virulence is based on its production of toxins that alter the intestinal barrier, leading to inflammation that upsets the balance of the microbiota. Its ability to sporulate favours dissemination in hospital environments, and its resilience to antibiotics leads to recurrent infections.

Bacteriophages are natural predators, specific to a single bacterium, or even a single strain. They offer promising therapeutic prospects and are already being used in osteoarticular and pulmonary infections. Interactions between phages and bacteria are numerous and bacterial gene expression, thus influencing pathogenicity.

The aim of this thesis is to detail the numerous therapeutic applications of phages and to explore the opportunities offered by the latest bioengineering technologies to develop phages adapted to the infectious context of CDI and specifically targeting pathogenic C. difficile strains within the microbiota. Each player in the infectious site, as well as coevolutionary dynamics, will need to be considered to guarantee the long-term effectiveness of phage therapy.

Implementing this innovative approach requires interdisciplinary coordination combining microbiology, bioengineering and clinical science to respect practical constraints while integrating fundamental knowledge. This operational flexibility will be crucial in producing effective and sustainable phage therapy.
Entangled and sequential quantum protocols with dephasing
Creators: name: Boixo, Sergio
name: Heunen, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sequences of commuting quantum operators can be parallelized using entanglement. This transformation is behind some optimal quantum metrology protocols and recent results on quantum circuit complexity. We show that dephasing quantum maps in arbitrary dimension can also be parallelized. This implies that for general dephasing noise the protocol with entanglement is not more fragile than the corresponding sequential protocol and, conversely, the sequential protocol is not less effective than the entangled one. We derive this result using tensor networks. Furthermore, we only use transformations strictly valid within string diagrams in dagger compact closed categories. Therefore, they apply verbatim to other theories, such as geometric quantization and topological quantum field theory. This clarifies and characterizes to some extent the role of entanglement in general quantum theories.
description: 6 pages, many figures
Exciton Mott transition in Si Revealed by Terahertz Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Suzuki, Takeshi
name: Shimano, Ryo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exciton Mott transition in Si is investigated by using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. The excitonic correlation as manifested by the 1s-2p resonance is observed above the Mott density. The scattering rate of charge carriers is prominently enhanced at the proximity of Mott density, which is attributed to the non-vanishing exciton correlation in the metallic electron-hole plasma. Concomitantly, the signature of plasmon-exciton coupling is observed in the loss function spectra.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
title: Bone marrow findings; Beyond the scope of the primary imaging
Creators: name: Mohamed Abouelhoda, Pasant
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: Inflammation
subject: Metastases

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: · To know the normal BM appearance in different sequences. · To be familiar with different BM pathologies. · To have a systemic approach to diagnose various BM diseases. · To be aware when to ask for other modalities or contrast...
title: CT perfusion: safer, better, faster, longer.
Creators: name: Cedrún, Irene
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Radiation physics
subject: CT
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review radiation dose optimization strategies for PCT in the study of acute...
Hierarchical freezing in a lattice model
Creators: name: Byington, Travis W.
name: Socolar, Joshua E. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A certain two-dimensional lattice model with nearest and next-nearest neighbor interactions is known to have a limit-periodic ground state. We show that during a slow quench from the high temperature, disordered phase, the ground state emerges through an infinite sequence of phase transitions. We define appropriate order parameters and show that the transitions are related by renormalizations of the temperature scale. As the temperature is decreased, sublattices with increasingly large lattice constants become ordered. A rapid quench results in glass-like state due to kinetic barriers created by simultaneous freezing on sublattices with different lattice constants.
description: 6 pages; 5 figures (minor changes, reformatted)
New Q-ball Solutions in Gauge-Mediation, Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis and Gravitino Dark Matter
Creators: name: Doddato, Francesca
name: McDonald, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Affleck-Dine (AD) baryogenesis along a d=6 flat direction in gauge-mediated supersymmetry-breaking (GMSB) models can produce unstable Q-balls which naturally have field strength similar to the messenger scale. In this case a new kind of Q-ball is formed, intermediate between gravity-mediated and gauge-mediated type. We study in detail these new Q-ball solutions, showing how their properties interpolate between standard gravity-mediated and gauge-mediated Q-balls as the AD field becomes larger than the messenger scale. It is shown that E/Q for the Q-balls can be greater than the nucleon mass but less than the MSSM-LSP mass, leading to Q-ball decay directly to Standard Model fermions with no MSSM-LSP production. More significantly, if E/Q is greater than the MSSM-LSP mass, decaying Q-balls can provide a natural source of non-thermal MSSM-LSPs, which can subsequently decay to gravitino dark matter without violating nucleosynthesis constraints. The model therefore provides a minimal scenario for baryogenesis and gravitino dark matter in the gauge-mediated MSSM, requiring no new fields.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures. Some corrections and additional discussion. Version published in JCAP
Synthesis of spiroaminal 2,8-disubstituted-1,7-diazaspiro[5,5]undecane derivatives
Creators: name: Han, Jiaxu
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: (N,N)-spiroaminal is an interesting chemical motif yet it is neglected in synthetic research compared to its analogues (O,O)-spiroketal and (O,N)-spirohemiaminal. The Barrett group recently reported synthetic methods for (N,N)-spiroaminals: 1,7- diazaspiro[5,5]undecane (I) and tetrahydrospirobiquinolines (II). i,ii This research focuses on the development of synthetic methods for (N,N)- spiroaminals and investigation of their applications. The first part of this thesis consists of synthetic methods for 2,8-disubstituted-1,7-diazaspiro[5,5]undecane (III). The key synthetic step involves bi-directional Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons olefination of chiral aldehydes (IV) with diphosphate (V). iii The second part of this thesis focuses on the development attempts to synthesise chiral ligands with spiroaminal backbone, including di-amide, di-phosphine, phosphite, bis(oxazoline) and macrocyclic ligands. 4 The final part of this work concentrates on the coordination chemistry study of the newly synthesised spiroaminal compounds with a range of metal sources.
Shear behavior of reinforced concrete deep beams under static and dynamic loads
Creators: name: Shahnewaz, Md
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Reinforced concrete (RC) deep beams predominantly fail in shear which is brittle and sudden in nature that can lead to catastrophic consequences. Therefore, it is critical to determine the shear behavior of RC deep beams accurately under both static and dynamic loads. In this study, a database of the existing experimental results of deep beams failing in shear under static loading was constructed. The database was used to propose two simplified shear equations using genetic algorithm (GA) to evaluate the shear strength of deep beams with and without web reinforcement under static loads. Reliability analysis was performed to calibrate the equations for design purposes. The resistance factors for the design equations were calculated for a target reliability index of 3.5 to achieve an acceptable level of structural safety. A deep beam section designed following the building codes considering only static loads may behave differently under dynamic loading condition. Therefore, in this study, deep beams were analyzed under reversed cyclic loading to simulate the seismic effects. The ultimate load capacity, energy dissipation capacity, and ductility capacity were calculated in deep beams with different reinforcement ratios. In RC structures, deep beams have interaction with other structural elements through connections. Therefore, to predict the shear behavior of deep beams in real structure under seismic loads, it is necessary to analyze a full structure with a deep beam. A seven storey RC office building with a deep transfer beam was designed following the CSA A23.3 standards. The structure was analyzed using non-linear pushover and non-linear dynamic time history analysis. The deep beam was evaluated for the shear deficiency under different earthquake records for the soil condition of the City of Vancouver. The analysis results showed a significant shear deficiency of about 25% in the deep beam. The use of carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) resulted in increasing the shear capacity of a deep beam by up to 82%.
Diffusion Adaptation over Networks under Imperfect Information Exchange and Non-stationary Data
Creators: name: Zhao, Xiaochuan
name: Tu, Sheng-Yuan
name: Sayed, Ali H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Adaptive networks rely on in-network and collaborative processing among distributed agents to deliver enhanced performance in estimation and inference tasks. Information is exchanged among the nodes, usually over noisy links. The combination weights that are used by the nodes to fuse information from their neighbors play a critical role in influencing the adaptation and tracking abilities of the network. This paper first investigates the mean-square performance of general adaptive diffusion algorithms in the presence of various sources of imperfect information exchanges, quantization errors, and model non-stationarities. Among other results, the analysis reveals that link noise over the regression data modifies the dynamics of the network evolution in a distinct way, and leads to biased estimates in steady-state. The analysis also reveals how the network mean-square performance is dependent on the combination weights. We use these observations to show how the combination weights can be optimized and adapted. Simulation results illustrate the theoretical findings and match well with theory.
description: 36 pages, 7 figures, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, June 2012
Understanding the Roles of sketching in product design
Creators: name: Hua, Min
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Sketching is an essential part of the tradition and practice of design. However, despite the extensive literature on the subject, the roles of sketching in the design are still not fully understood. Therefore, this PhD study was carried out to understand the roles of sketching in the product design field and to develop the means to support the design sketching process. Hypotheses emerged from the review of the literature and led to three descriptive studies: a pilot study to identify the roles of sketching in design; a survey of design students; a survey of design professionals. Data collected from these studies were used to test and verify the hypotheses. It was found that the major roles of sketching in design were related to design ideation and design communication. The comparison between design students and professionals showed that they tend to perceive the major roles of sketching differently, but shared similar opinions on the major roles of talking sketches, sketching expertise and as a practical supporting tool. In addition, an Ideation Segment Model was proposed, which describes the process that sketching ideas evolve into final design outcomes and locates the potential supporting tools in the sketching process. Consequently, a practical supporting tool was developed to enhance understanding of design sketching, to provide external stimuli, and to improve sketching expertise. The supporting tool, entitled the PD-Sketching Primer and PD-Sketching Toolkit, was tested with education and positive feedback was received. This research has contributed towards understanding the roles of sketching in design, e.g. it is the first empirical study of ‘non-working sketches’ in the design field. It has generated new knowledge and tools to support the design sketching process. This supporting tool is one of only a few resources designed to support sketching activity and creative performance in the product design field.
Duality covariant non-BPS first order systems
Creators: name: Bossard, Guillaume
name: Katmadas, Stefanos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study extremal black hole solutions to four dimensional N=2 supergravity based on a cubic symmetric scalar manifold. Using the coset construction available for these models, we define the first order flow equations implied by the corresponding nilpotency conditions on the three-dimensional scalar momenta for the composite non-BPS class of multi-centre black holes. As an application, we directly solve these equations for the single-centre subclass, and write the general solution in a manifestly duality covariant form. This includes all single-centre under-rotating non-BPS solutions, as well as their non-interacting multi-centre generalisations.
description: 31 pages, v2: Discussion of the quadratic constraint clarified, references added, typos corrected, published version
title: Imaging of head and neck malignant tumors in paediatric patients.
Creators: name: Modica, Alessandro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Paediatric
subject: Oncology
subject: Head and neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of our study is to report and describe the main and most frequent imaging semiological featuresof the most common head and neck malignancies in paediatric...
ЁШЛАРНИНГ ДУНЁҚАРАШИ ВА ХУЛҚ-АТВОРИГА ТАЪСИР ЭТУВЧИ ОМИЛЛАР
Creators: name: Кукон Давлат педагогика институти Бошлангич таълим факультети Факультетлараро педагогика ва психология кафедра укитувчиси  Ботирова Мукаррамхон Муйдиновна 1.	Рустамова Дилшода Исломжон қизи  2.	Табиий фанлар GIBA йўналиши 2 курс талабаси. 2 .Зокирова Шахноза Боходиржон қизи   Табиий  фанлар biological йўналиши 2курс талабас
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ушбу мақолада жамиятда ахлоқий маънавий маданий хулқ кўриншлари шаклланиш, ушбу талабалар даражасидан оғиш масалалари қадимдан алломаларимиз томон Ахлоқий меъёрлардан оғиш муаммолари,инсоннинг феълатвори билан боғлиқ ахлоқий ҳодисалари,Болалар орасида девиант ҳулқ-атвор элементларининг намоён бўлиши,ва унга таъсир этувчи омиллар кўрсатиб ўтилган.
Калит сўзлар:ахлоқ меёрлари, хулқ, омиллар, руҳий барқарорлик , тараққиёт, одоб , жамият , маънавият, онгсизлик, ички низолар, шакиллантириш.
Falling from the Past. Geographies of exceptionalism in two novels by Jay McInerney
Creators: name: Iuliano, Fiorenzo
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: McInerney; American literature; New York; September 11 literature; Southern USA; trauma

description: Celebrating the glamorous 1980s, Jay McInerney has described the fall of the ambitions and delusions of yuppies in New York City. The vibrant atmosphere of his debut novel (Bright Lights, Big City, 1984) comes to a sudden end in Brightness Falls (1987), where the 1987 stock market crash is prophesied and narrated in its consequences on the lives of a young, brilliant couple, Corrine and Russell Calloway. Almost twenty years later, in The Good Life (2006), McInerney takes up Russell’s and Corrine’s stories again, now in the aftermath of September 11.
This article focuses on the symbolic economy of the US territory. The 1980s, as they have been represented in Brightness Falls, witnessed the boisterous celebration of New York City and its centrality in the imaginary geography of the USA. When New York apparently starts crumbling under the terrorist attacks, the protagonists of The Good Life ideally (and sometimes physically) go back to their native places. In particular, one of the novel’s central characters, Luke McGavock, who starts an affair with Corrine while they are both volunteering at Ground Zero, returns to his native Tennessee, where is confronted with the memory of the Civil War. From this moment on, the novel starts tracing an implicit and highly thought-provoking parallel between the defeated nineteenth-century South and the synecdochic New York City at the turn of the twenty-first century, whose crash has engendered the dramatic need for the US to face the burden of its own history.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: NUMERO SPECIALE 9/11/2011
title: Automation of RADS Structured Reporting Schema
Creators: name: Vining, David
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Cancer
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Screening
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: RIS
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Computer applications

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Learn about the various RADS reporting schema (e.g., BI-RADS, Lung-RADS, etc.) for screening examinations Understand the differences between each schema Learn how the RADS assessment categories can be calculated using structured report...
title: Anti TNF alpha: The other side In crohn’s disease
Creators: name: CHEKIR, Hedi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Education
subject: Drugs / Reactions

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of our educational exhibit is to: - List the possible complications in patients treated with anti-TNF alpha for crohn’s disease. - Illustrate the imaging features of these complications in different...
title: Complications post thoracic surgery for Lung Cancer: Imaging Essentials
Creators: name: Heaney, Roisin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Cancer
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Surgery
subject: Complications
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the expected post-operative imaging findings for the various lung resection operations. To review the complications occuring in the early and late phases post resection. To review common sites of...
On the polar degree of projective hypersurfaces
Creators: name: Fassarella, Thiago
name: Medeiros, Nivaldo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14E05

description: Given a hypersurface in the complex projective $n$-space we prove several known formulas for the degree of its polar map by purely algebro-geometric methods. Furthermore, we give formulas for the degree of its polar map in terms of the degrees of the polar maps of its components. As an application, we classify the plane curves with polar map of low degree, including a very simple proof of I. Dolgachev's classification of homaloidal plane curves.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures. Fixed minor typos. Final version, to appear in J. London Math. Soc
title: Place of imaging in the management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleedings
Creators: name: Kontogom, Denis
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Acute
subject: Venous access
subject: Embolisation
subject: Arterial access
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To recall the vascular anatomy of the gastro-intestinal tract. Togivethe timing and indications of abdominal CT-angiography in cases of upper gastro-intestinal (GI) bleedings. To show the role of interventional radiologyvs endoscopy in the...
Spinning wind into power : industry and energy in Gitxaała Nation, British Columbia
Creators: name: Rodman, Lauren Sacha
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Wind power currently represents the fastest growing renewable energy resource in the world. Disputes over siting, disparities in economic and community benefits, and perceptions of landscape change all surface with renewable energy projects. Recently, renewable energy projects in partnership with First Nations have spread throughout Canada, yet limited studies exist regarding First Nations and renewable energy projects. This research examines proposed wind farms in Gitxaała Nation, a First Nation located near Prince Rupert, on British Columbia’s North Coast. Gitxaała Nation has four wind projects proposed in their claimed traditional territory, including the Naikun Wind Farm, potentially Canada’s first offshore wind project. Based on three months of qualitative fieldwork in Prince Rupert, BC (May 2012-August 2012), this thesis examines wind turbine projects in the context of Gitxaała Nation’s experiences and explores the shifting terrain of renewable energy development in British Columbia. Twelve semi-structured interviews were conducted, paired with participant observation and numerous informal conversations. This thesis analyzes how wind turbine development in this context is intricately tied to (and viewed as) large-scale industrial development. For Gitxaała Nation, it is linked to the development of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. In exploring views surrounding wind power’s introduction, the research examines how wind turbine projects are understood and the factors influencing how they are viewed and either accepted or rejected. It raises questions regarding renewable energies in BC and their place with First Nations, and it begins to address whether renewable energy is viewed differently from conventional resource extraction projects. Additionally, this research evaluates the impacts of renewable energy projects on local communities while exploring whether such projects are desired by and/or beneficial to Gitxaała Nation.