cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Finite deformation of a circular inclusion with inhomogeneous imperfect interface conditions in harmonic materials
Creators: name: McArthur, Daniel
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Applied Mechanics
subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Elasticity
subject: Continuum-Mechanics
subject: Complex-Variables

description: The objective of this study is to determine the effect that introducing circumferential variations has on an imperfect interface in a circular inclusion in finite elasticity. The inclusion and surrounding matrix are assumed to be comprised of a particular class of materials referred to as harmonic materials and the analysis is confined to the case of plane strain deformations. This opens the door for the use of complex variable methods to derive analytic solutions for the interfacial stress under varying interface conditions.This thesis focuses on three specific types of imperfect interface conditions, namely; the case where the degree of imperfection is the same in the coordinate directions normal and tangential to the interface, the case of a non-slip interface where the tangential degree of imperfection prevents rotation of the inclusion, and the case of a sliding interface where the normal degree of imperfection prevents separation of the interphase layer.Using the technique of analytic continuation, analytic solutions are developed and results are contrasted to a corresponding homogeneous interface for all three of the aforementioned interface conditions. The results indicate that in general, the homogeneous interface model is not accurate in predicting the stress along the inclusion interface.
Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius, Fabaceae) and the pollination and reproductive success of three Garry oak-associated plant species
Creators: name: Muir, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Botany
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pollination
subject: pollen limitation

description: A growing number of studies are observing an effect of invasive species on the pollination and reproductive success of co-flowering plants, over and above direct competition for resources. In this study, I investigate the effect of the invader Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) on the pollinator visitation, pollen deposition, and female reproductive output of three co-flowering members (two native, one exotic) of the critically endangered Garry oak grassland ecosystem on the Saanich peninsula of Vancouver Island. Higher pollinator sharing between native Camassia leichtlinii and Scotch broom increased pollen deposition and fruit set in invaded sites, despite a decreased visitation rate. Conversely, the invader had little detectable effect on the native Collinsia parviflora or the exotic Geranium molle where pollinator sharing was low. This study provides evidence that Scotch broom neither competes for pollination with natives, nor facilitates invasion of other exotics in Garry oak ecosystem remnants.
Effects of global fisheries on the biomass of marine ecosystems : a trophic-level-based approach
Creators: name: Tremblay-Boyer, Laura
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Marine fisheries have been occurring for centuries but the last 50 years have seen a drastic increase in their reach and intensity. Fisheries now impact marine ecosystems worldwide and it is necessary to understand their impact, both historical and current, at this scale. A global perspective provides an efficient inter-disciplinary communication tool and allows to summarize and validate our current understanding of ecosystem functioning. The objectives of this thesis are to generate global estimates of biomass for marine ecosystems and evaluate the effects that fisheries have had on ocean biomass since the 1950s. A simple but versatile ecosystem model was used to represent ecosystems as a function of energy fluxes through trophic levels. Using primary production data, sea surface temperature, fisheries catch and trophic level of species, the model was applied on a half-degree grid covering all oceans. Estimates of biomass by trophic levels were derived for marine ecosystems in an unexploited state, as well as for all decades since the 1950s. Trends in the decline of marine biomass from the unexploited state were analyzed for all oceans, with a special emphasis on predator species since they are highly vulnerable to fishing. This thesis is the first application of a trophic modelling approach to a worldwide estimation of the effects of fishing. It provides an independent confirmation of previous reports by other researchers that were based on proxies of biomass or on meta-analyses of local datasets. The results presented highlight three main trends about the global effects of fishing: (1) predators are more affected than organisms at lower trophic levels; (2) declines in ecosystem biomass are stronger along coastlines than in the High Seas; (3) the extent of fishing and its impacts have expanded from north temperate to equatorial and southern waters in the last 50 years. More specifically, this work shows that many oceans historically exploited by humans have seen a drastic decline in their predator biomass, with about half of the coastal areas of the North Atlantic and North Pacific showing a decline in predator biomass of more than 90%. The spatial and temporal trends presented in this work provide a global synthesis of the effects of fishing on the biomass of marine ecosystems and point to a potential state of the world’s oceans if industrial fisheries maintain their current trajectory.
Inner Mechanics of 3d Black Holes
Creators: name: Detournay, Stéphane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate properties of the inner horizons of certain black holes in higher-derivative three-dimensional gravity theories. We focus on BTZ and Spacelike Warped Anti-de Sitter black holes, as well as on asymptotically Warped de-Sitter solutions exhibiting both a cosmological and a black hole horizon. We verify that a First Law is satisfied at the Inner horizon, in agreement with the proposal of \cite{Castro:2012av}. We then show that, in Topologically Massive Gravity, the product of the areas of the inner and outer horizons fails to be independent on the mass, and trace this to the diffeomorphism anomaly of the theory.
description: 5 pages
Additional file 1 of Quality of web-based Arabic health information on dental implants: an infodemiological study
Creators: name: Halboub, Esam
name: Al-Ak’hali, Mohammed Sultan
name: Alqahtani, Ahmed Shaher
name: Abdulghani, Ehab A.
name: Kamil, Mona Awad
name: Alhajj, Mohammed Nasser
name: Al-Sosowa, Abeer A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Panicum stevensianum Hitchc. & Chase 1915
Creators: name: Fernando O. Zuloaga
name: Diego Giraldo-Cañas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Panicum
Panicum stevensianum

description: 9-8. Panicum stevensianum Hitchc. & Chase,
 Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 17 (6): 498, f. 76. 1915. Tipo: Puerto Rico. Campo Alegre, near Laguna del Tortuguero, 25 nov 1913, A. Chase 6616 (holotipo US-693323!; isotipos NY!, US!).
 Fig. 30
 Plantas de duración indefinida, probablemente perennes. Cañas postradas, decumbentes y enraizando en los nudos inferiores, luego erectas, 20-100 cm de altura, entrenudos glabros, nudos castaños, glabros. Hojas con vainas estriadas, glabras o esparcidamente papiloso-pilosas con pelos caducos, un margen ciliado hacia el ápice, cuello castaño, glabro; lígulas membranáceas, cortamente ciliadas en el ápice, 0.4-1 mm de largo; láminas lanceoladas, 10-25 x 0.5-1.7 cm, subcordadas a cordadas en la base, los márgenes inferiores ciliados a esparcidamente pilosos en la cara adaxial o completamente glabros. Inflorescencia una panoja terminal, laxa a contraída, 8-28 x 1-6 cm; eje principal sinuoso, escabroso, ramificaciones de primer orden alternas, ejes de las ramificaciones y pedicelos escabrosos, espiguillas secundas o dispuestas en ramificaciones cortas de segundo orden, pareadas en cortos pedicelos. Espiguillas estrechamente elípticas, 1.9- 2.6 x 0.6-0.7 mm, verdosas o con tintes purpúreos, glabras, biconvexas, gluma superior y lema inferior subiguales o la gluma superior un poco más corta. Gluma inferior 0.8-1.1 mm de largo, ca. de 1/2 de la longitud de la espiguilla, acuminada, 3-nervia. Gluma superior 5-nervia. Lema inferior 5-nervia. Pálea inferior lanceolada, 2 x 0.6 mm, hialina, los márgenes escabriúsculos. Flor inferior perfecta o estaminada u ocasionalmente ausente, lodículas truncadas, anteras 1.2 mm de largo, estigma purpúreo. Antecio superior estrechamente ovado, 1.7-1.9 x 0.5 mm, blanquecino, firmemente membranáceo, glabro, escabroso en el ápice, el resto de su superficie papilosa y con cuerpos de sílice. Cariopsis no vista.
 Hábitat y distribución. Panicum stevensianum se distribuye en algunas islas del Caribe (Cuba, Puerto Rico y Guadalupe) y el norte de Sudamérica (Colombia, Venezuela y nordeste de Brasil), en hábitats abiertos y húmedos de zonas bajas. En Colombia se conoce sólo de un registro en la región Orinoquia (departamento de Casanare).
 Comentarios. Panicum stevensianum es la única especies de las aquí documentadas que puede presentar flor inferior perfecta (además de estaminada o ausente). Una ilustra- ción de esta especie puede encontrarse en Zuloaga et al. (1992).
 Especímenes representativos. Casanare: ca. del Hato Gandul, al sur del río Pauto, llanura aluvial de desborde, 1 feb 1964, Blydenstein s.n. (SI, US).
description: Published as part of Fernando O. Zuloaga & Diego Giraldo-Cañas, 2013, 30. Panicum, pp. 1-107 in Flora de Colombia 30 on pages 83-85, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.259616
Pincer Ligands with Strong σ-Donors at the Central Position
Creators: name: Borau-Garcia, Javier
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chemistry--Inorganic
subject: Pincer Ligands
subject: N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
subject: Boryl Ligands

description: Pincer ligands have been extensively investigated due to the ease by which their steric and electronic properties can be tuned. One of the most important features of pincer metal complexes is their robustness, which renders them excellent candidates for a wide variety of applications such as catalysis, medicinal chemistry, and chemical sensing. The increased robustness of pincer complexes is not associated with a loss of reactivity at the metal center, which renders them good ancillary ligands. Proper tuning of the electron donating properties of pincer ligands has allowed for some of their metal complexes to display unprecedented reactivity. The objective of the research described herein was the synthesis and characterization of novel pincer ligand architectures, with a particular interest in ligands with strong electron donating moieties at the central position. Two PBP pincer ligand precursors with a 2-chloro-1,3,2-diazaborane central moiety were synthesized. The coordination of the ligand precursors to palladium via a B-Cl bond activation was investigated. The synthesized PBP ligands represent two of the first examples of pincer ligands with a boryl at the central donor position, and their palladium complexes are the first ever (PBP)Pd complexes. These complexes displayed good thermal stability but no catalytic activity under Heck cross-coupling reaction conditions. The synthesis of PBP and NBN pincer ligand precursors with an acyclic backbone was also explored. PCP pincer ligand precursors with six and five membered N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) moieties at the central donor position, which upon coordination would generate two five membered metallacycles, were synthesized and characterized. Double C-H bond activation by rhodium in PCP-carbene precursors yielded the desired compounds with six membered NHC backbones. These are among the rare examples where a double C-H bond activation leads to the formation of an NHC complex. The rhodium complexes displayed good thermal stability and promising reactivity. The analogous PCP-carbene precursor with a five membered NHC backbone could be readily deprotonated to the free carbene, allowing for the synthesis of rhodium, palladium, nickel and molybdenum complexes. These complexes have some of the shortest M-CNHC bonds reported for each metal, suggesting a strong interaction between the metal center and the ligand.
Dynamical Traps Caused by Fuzzy Rationality as a New Emergence Mechanism
Creators: name: Lubashevsky, Ihor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new emergence mechanism related to the human fuzzy rationality is considered. It assumes that individuals (operators) governing the dynamics of a certain system try to follow an optimal strategy in controlling its motion but fail to do this perfectly because similar strategies are indistinguishable for them. The main attention is focused on the systems where the optimal dynamics implies the stability of a certain equilibrium point in the corresponding phase space. In such systems the fuzzy rationality gives rise to some neighborhood of the equilibrium point, the region of dynamical traps, wherein each point is regarded as an equilibrium one by the operators. So when the system enters this region and while it is located in it, maybe for a long time, the operator control is suspended. To elucidate a question as to whether the dynamical traps on their own can cause emergent phenomena the stochastic factors are eliminated from consideration. In this case the system can leave the dynamical trap region only because of the mismatch between actions of different operators. By way of example, a chain of oscillators with dynamical traps is analyzed numerically. As demonstrated the dynamical traps do induce instability and complex behavior of such systems.
description: V2: typos correction
Additional file 1 of Prevalence of haemosporidia in Asian Glossy Starling with discovery of misbinding of Haemoproteus-specific primer to Plasmodium genera in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
Creators: name: Noni, Vaenessa
name: Tan, Cheng Siang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Flowchart containing the workflow used for the detection of avian haemosporidians in our study.
Pulmonary Hypertension: Insights From the Reservoir-Wave Approach
Creators: name: Ghimire, Anukul
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hemodynamics
subject: Cardiovascular

description: We employed the reservoir-wave approach to analyze high-fidelity pulmonary arterial (PA) pressure and Doppler flow velocity in 11 patients with varying cardiac diseases. Our specific objectives were to (1) to characterize PA wave pattern and (2) evaluate right ventricular (RV) performance. Wave pressure was partitioned into its forward and backward components. Among patients with lower PA pressures, pressure-decreasing and flow-increasing reflected waves that assist RV ejection were detected. Among the more pulmonary hypertensive patients, pressure-increasing and flow-decreasing reflected waves that impede RV ejection were detected. The four patients with the highest PA pressures showed an early systolic deceleration in flow, which was found to coincide with reflected pressure-increasing, flow-decreasing waves. Wave work done by the RV increased with PA pressure, but expressed as a fraction of total RV work, did not change. The reservoir-wave approach may prove to be a valuable tool to characterize PA-RV interaction and evaluate RV performance.
Extension of the Schiff theorem to ions and molecules
Creators: name: Flambaum, V. V.
name: Kozlov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to the Schiff theorem the nuclear electric dipole moment (EDM) is screened in neutral atoms. In ions this screening is incomplete. We extend a derivation of the Schiff theorem to ions and molecules. The finite nuclear size effects are considered including Z^2 alpha^2 corrections to the nuclear Schiff moment which are significant in all atoms and molecules of experimental interest. We show that in majority of ionized atoms the nuclear EDM contribution to the atomic EDM dominates while in molecules the contribution of the Schiff moment dominates. We also consider the screening of electron EDM in ions.
title: Editorial: Dokumentenanalyse aus historischer, diskursanalytischer, dokumentarischer und ethnografischer Perspektive
Creators: name: Schulz, Marc
name: Bischoff-Pabst, Stefanie
name: Cloos, Peter
Publisher: name: UVH - Universitätsverlag Hildesheim
Year: 2020

description: Fallarchiv Kindheitspädagogische Forschung
Molecular genetic diversity among natural populations of Populus
Creators: name: Ismail, Mohamed
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Genetic diversity is a key factor in species survival, evolution, and adaptation. It also reveals species genetic structure and provides insights into how different demographic forces shape species genetic variability. Although, black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa Torr. & Gray) is the first tree to have its genome completely sequenced; however, information regarding its natural genetic diversity and population structure is lacking. I have investigated the extent of genetic diversity within and among 38 natural populations of P. trichocarpa sampled across British Columbia using 10 nuclear (nuSSR) and 12 chloroplast microsatellite (cpSSR) markers. CpSSR represents two haplotypes, clustering as northern and southern groups; however, a Bayesian population structure analysis suggested the presence of three highly admixed groups supported by low population differentiation (low FST and RST). Monmonier’s spatial analysis suggested the presence of one genetic discontinuity dividing the studied area into northern and southern regions. These findings indicated that P. trichocarpa might have originated from two, northern and southern, glacial refugia that have experienced moderate contact through extensive gene flow. Nucleotide diversity for 10 candidate-gene loci involved in adaptive, defence, and housekeeping functions was abundant and varied across loci, with the majority showing neutral variations. Linkage disequilibrium (LD), decays rapidly to r² ≈ 0.18 within 700 base pairs (bp). Comparing the nucleotide diversity between P. trichocarpa and P. balsamifera L. to the Eurasian P. tremula L. indicated that the two North American species had lower diversity (θw range 0.002 to 0.004) than the Eurasian poplar (θw = 0.005). The estimated time of divergence between the two North American and the Eurasian species indicated that the latter was five- to six-fold older compared to the two former species. The substitution rate was lower in North American species (0.4 x 10-⁸ per year) compared to the Eurasian poplar (2 x 10-⁸). Different association genetics models produced strikingly different results after the inclusion or exclusion of population structure, highlighting the importance of proper model construction.
MPEC 2025-G103 : 2016 CS433 = 2019 AZ142
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Disentangling the styles, sequences and antiquity of the early rock art of western Arnhem Land
Creators: name: Jones, Tristen
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017
Subjects: rock art
Arnhem Land
Australian archaeology
radiocarbon
rock art dating
modern symbolic behaviours

description: The rock art of western Arnhem Land represents one of the largest corpuses and most complex ancient cultural records in ancient Australia, with both the rock art and the broader archaeological landscape amongst the oldest Indigenous occupied landscapes in the country (David et al. 2013; Clarkson et al. 2015; Roberts et al. 1990, 1993, 1994). While both the archaeology and aspects of the rock art have been rigorously studied, the early rock art of Arnhem Land rock art largely remains disarticulated from the archaeological record owing to its unknown antiquity (Langley and Taçon 2010). The inability to temporally link rock art sequences to the archaeological record has thus limited the capacity of rock art researchers to inform and engage in disciplinary debates regarding the social nature and the cultural complexity of Indigenous societies in the deep past. This issue remains the greatest limitation of rock art research (Ross et al. 2016). This thesis aims to revaluate and test the validity of the previously proposed stylistic sequences and their assumed antiquity (Brandl 1973; Chaloupka 1993; Chippindale and Taçon 1998; Lewis 1988) with particular reference to the early to middle periods of western Arnhem Land rock art (Chippindale and Taçon 1998; Wesley et al. in press). It aims to anchor the stylistic chronology and our current understanding of western Arnhem Land rock art to the broader regional archaeological record through the production of absolute chronometric age constraints for selected rock art styles. The rock art styles subject to stylistic analysis and radiocarbon dating include; the Northern Running Figure style, the Large Naturalistic style, and the early X-ray style. By producing chronometric information regarding the timings of the emergence and disappearance of key rock art styles, a revised chronology for the early to middle periods can be proposed. This revised stylistic chronology for early to middle period rock art enables a combined re-evaluation of both the archaeology and the rock art in the region, thus consolidating our understanding of the social nature, function and cultural context of rock art production in western Arnhem Land throughout the Pleistocene – Holocene transition.
Party Politics, Citizen Activism and the Media: Negotiating Gender Roles in the GDR and FRG, 1968-1989
Creators: name: Isberg, Krista
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: History--Modern
subject: History
subject: GDR
subject: FRG

description: This thesis project began as a case study assessment of two women’s magazines: from East Germany, Für Dich, and from West Germany, Emma. Archival research undertaken to support this examination indicated the significance of a range of political actors in establishing and reinforcing new gender role expectations, specifically for German women, in the 1970s and 80s. I demonstrate that it was not only or primarily the media or grassroots political movements that drove social change, as some historical analyses suggest, but that various strata of government were also significantly engaged in the process. This thesis addresses: political ideologies driving changes in East and West Germany, bi-lateral relations between women’s organizations from both states, the ratification by East and West German governments of the Charter for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and finally a case study examination of the two previously mentioned women’s magazines.
Classical Helium Atom with Radiation Reaction
Creators: name: Camelio, G.
name: Carati, A.
name: Galgani, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a classical model of Helium atom in which, in addition to the Coulomb forces, the radiation reaction forces are taken into account. This modification brings in the model a new qualitative feature of a global character. Indeed, as pointed out by Dirac, in any model of classical electrodynamics of point particles involving radiation reaction one has to eliminate, from the a priori conceivable solutions of the problem, those corresponding to the emission of an infinite amount of energy. We show that the Dirac prescription solves a problem of inconsistency plaguing all available models which neglect radiation reaction, namely, the fact that in all such models most initial data lead to a spontaneous breakdown of the atom. A further modification is that the system thus acquires a peculiar form of dissipation. In particular, this makes attractive an invariant manifold of special physical interest, the zero--dipole manifold, that corresponds to motions in which no energy is radiated away (in the dipole approximation). We finally study numerically the invariant measure naturally induced by the time--evolution on such a manifold, and this corresponds to studying the formation process of the atom. Indications are given that such a measure may be singular with respect to that of Lebesgue.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Kinetic inductance detectors for millimeter and submillimeter astronomy / Détecteurs à inductance cinétique pour l'astronomie millimétrique et sub-millimétrique
Creators: name: Boudou, Nicolas
name: Benoit, Alain
name: Bourrion, Olivier
name: Calvo, Martino
name: Désert, François-Xavier
name: Macias-Perez, Juan
name: Monfardini, Alessandro
name: Roesch, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present recent developments in Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID) for large arrays of detectors. The main application is ground-based millimeter wave astronomy. We focus in particular, as a case study, on our own experiment: NIKA (Néel IRAM KID Arrays). NIKA is today the best in-the-field experiment using KID-based instruments, and consists of a dual-band imaging system designed for the IRAM 30 meter telescope at Pico Veleta. We describe in this article, after a general context introduction, the KID working principle and the readout electronics, crucial to take advantage of the intrinsic KID multiplexability. We conclude with a small subset of the astronomical sources observed simultaneously at 2 mm and 1.4 mm by NIKA during the last run, held in October 2010. Nous décrivons les récents développements concernant les grandes matrices de détecteurs à inductance cinétique (KID) dont l'application principale est l'astronomie millimétrique au sol. Nous détaillons en particulier notre propre caméra : NIKA (Néel IRAM KID Arrays) qui est aujourd'hui l'instrument le plus abouti mettant en oeuvre des KIDs. NIKA est une caméra bi-bande conçue pour le radiotélescope de 30 mètres de l'IRAM à Pico Veleta. Aprés avoir décrit le contexte instrumental dans lequel ils s'inscrivent, nous expliquerons le principe de fonctionnement des KIDs et de leur électronique de lecture, cruciale pour pouvoir tirer parti de leur potentiel de muliplexage. Pour finir, nous présentons quelques exemples d'observations effectuées par NIKA dans les bandes de 2 mm et 1,4 mm au cours de la dernière campagne d'observation en octobre 2010.
description: Withdrawn, will be resubmitted with a new list of authors
Rojo, amarillo y verde; Mito e Identidad en la Tradición Literaria Latinoamericana
Creators: name: Tapiero Acuña, Maria
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Literature--Latin American
subject: Anthropology--Cultural
subject: History--Latin American
subject: Culture, Latin America, Literature

description: The purpose of this thesis is to show in Rojo, amarillo y verde, the novel by Alejandro Saravia, the experience of a Latin American exiled in Canada during the 1980´s. This experience is revealed in this novel in relation to the tradition of Myth and Archive in Latin American literature, using the works of Roberto González Echevarría as a theoretical base. Special emphasis is given to the challenges the storyline faces in order to show how, through polyphony, the characters outline the changing features of their identity in Canada. This identity is distant from the essentialism of the 19th century, which was supported by a series of stereotypical national symbols, such as the flag, the coat of arms, the anthem and one´s nationality. This notion of an integral and shared commonality is now under challenge by the in-between identity found in the cultural frontiers of nations and by the increasing process of transculturation.
Additional file 2 of Prevalence of haemosporidia in Asian Glossy Starling with discovery of misbinding of Haemoproteus-specific primer to Plasmodium genera in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
Creators: name: Noni, Vaenessa
name: Tan, Cheng Siang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Primer name, sequence and annealing temperature used for the amplification of the three main avian haemosporidians included in our study, Plasmodium, Haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon. Primer length is included in the expected amplicon size.
Time-Independent and Time-Dependent Behavior of Clearwater Clay Shale Underneath Large Storage Tanks – Laboratory Testing and Numerical Modelling
Creators: name: Ghassemi, Ramin
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Clearwater clay shale
subject: triaxial test
subject: Stress relaxation
subject: Creep
subject: time-independent
subject: time-dependent
subject: Chsoil model
subject: Zener model
subject: FLAC

description: The Clearwater clay shale overlays the Wabiskaw-McMurray bitumen deposit over most of the extent of Athabasca Oil Sands Area in northeastern Alberta, Canada. Both short-term and long-term settlement need to be assessed in a standard foundation design. Accuracy of these assessments depend on the knowledge of the real soil behavior in the field. Therefore, characterizing the behavior of this shale is of prime importance from geotechnical engineering perspective. The goal of this research is to investigate time-independent and time-dependent behavior of Clearwater clay shale in order to develop numerical tools for design, prediction, and analysis of structures over such clay shale formation. To this end, a set of laboratory testing and numerical modeling are completed. An extensive experimental study, including XRD analyses, free swell tests, oedometer tests, constant rate of strain consolidation tests, triaxial tests, and stress relaxation tests, was conducted on various facies of Clearwater Formations (Kcc-710, Kcb-700, Kcb-650, and Kca-625). The results of ten consolidated drained triaxial compression tests and two consolidated undrained triaxial tests were used to determine elastic parameters, Mohr-Coulomb shear parameters, parameters of the Chsoil model to characterize the time-independent response of facies of the Clearwater clay shale. Stress relaxation behavior of facies of the Clearwater clay shale was experimentally examined. Scrutinizing the obtained results, an expression was suggested for stress relaxation of Clearwater clay shale based on the final relaxed normalized deviatoric stress and half relaxation time, the time elapsed for half the stress relaxation in term of stress takes place. Then, a novel application of parameters of stress relaxation test in a model to predict creep settlement was introduced. Hence, a rheological model, the Zener model, was calibrated for facies of the Clearwater clay shale to predict the creep behavior under loading. The results were implemented in FLAC to predict Short-time and Long-time settlement of a test fill constructed on the Clearwater clay shale. The results of short-term analysis were in good agreement with the measured field data and those of the long-term analysis signified the importance of both creep and consolidation phenomena in the settlement assessment.
On the use of the digital moving image in retooling the australian political cartooning tradition to a new media context
Creators: name: Leon, Lucien
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cartoonists Australia
subject: Political cartoons Australia
subject: Digital media Political aspects Australia
subject: Australia Caricatures and cartoons.Politics and government

description: This research clarifies the position of the contemporary Australian political cartoonist in the context of a changing media landscape, and examines the implications of the shift of dissemination of news and current events away from news print media to the Internet. The observation that the political cartoon has, throughout its history, adapted and evolved in response to various socio-political and technological changes invites the question of how the art form might continue to endure as a vehicle for subversive political comment in the digital media age. In exploring the creative possibilities afforded by new media technologies and analysing where these outcomes intersect with the conventions and functions of political cartoons, the study specifically locates the digitally constructed, political moving image within the Australian political cartooning tradition. This position is investigated and supported through three key activities: critical engagement with the extant literature; insights gained through interviews with professional, practising political cartoonists deemed to be pioneers of the political moving image; and my development of a creative practice centred on production and dissemination of political animations. The provision of a new, revised taxonomy for the critical analysis and classification of political images compels practitioners, scholars and prize-givers to eschew hitherto inviolable determinants in the characterisation of political cartoon images so that the tradition can endure in the foreseeable future.
The Essence of Spirituality in Palliative Home Care: The Nurses' Perspective
Creators: name: Herbert, Ruth Elaine
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Spirituality
subject: Palliative Care
subject: Nursing

description: Abstract This descriptive phenomenological research study invited Registered Nurses to describe their perceptions and insights of the experience of spirituality in palliative home care. Semi-structured interviews with guided questions were the means by which these eight clinically experienced palliative care nurses described the essence of spirituality in palliative home care. Colaizzi's (1978) method of phenomenological data analysis was used to identify the structure or essence of spirituality in this practice environment. The three major themes that emerged from this research study: spirituality and health, nurses engagement in relational practice and holistic care of the dying demonstrate the importance of being attentive to one's own spiritual health and wellbeing in the holistic care of the dying. This study offers suggestions for palliative care nursing practice, education and research and uncovers the importance of providing opportunities for nurses reflective practice in regard to spirituality and health as well as the importance of attending to one's own spiritual health through personal reflection.
Dizziness, Neck Pain and Headaches Following Sport-Related Concussion: Symptoms, Risk Factors and Physiotherapy Management
Creators: name: Schneider, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Concussion

description: Sport-related concussion is a commonly occurring injury in sport today. Little is currently known about baseline symptoms and Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT) scores in youth athletes. Additionally, symptoms of dizziness, neck pain and headaches are commonly reported in the youth population and there is currently no literature evaluating these symptoms as risk factors for incident concussion. There is a paucity of literature currently available evaluating treatment for individuals with persistent symptoms following a sport-related concussion. Thus, while there has been an explosion of research in the area of sport-related concussion, there remain gaps in the current literature specifically relating to symptoms as risk factors for concussion and physiotherapy treatment for individuals with persistent symptoms. In this document, baseline symptoms and scores on the SCAT were evaluated and presented. Reports of dizziness, neck pain and headaches at the start of the season were found to be risk factors for concussion. A systematic review evaluating rest and treatment for individuals with persistent symptoms following a sport-related concussion found that there is minimal evidence currently available. In a randomized controlled trial, individuals who were treated with multimodal physiotherapy treatment, including vestibular rehabilitation, were 10 times more likely to be medically cleared to return to sport within eight weeks of initiation of treatment. Multimodal physiotherapy treatment should be considered for individuals with persistent symptoms of dizziness, neck pain and/or headaches following a sport-related concussion.
A pursuit of Fast Radio Transients with the UTMOST and Parkes radio telescopes
Creators: name: Caleb, Manisha Pranati
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Time Domain Astronomy
Radio transients
Fast Radio Bursts
Rotating Radio Transients
Interferometers
Polarisation
Polarization

description: Radio astronomy is currently exploring an intriguing new phase space that probes the dynamic Universe on timescales of milliseconds. Recent development of sensitive, high time resolution instruments has enabled the discovery of millisecond duration fast radio bursts (FRBs) and the erratic rotating radio transients (RRATs). A key distinguishing factor between FRBs and RRATs lies in the dispersion measure (DM) contribution along the line-of-sight through the Milky Way Galaxy's interstellar ionised plasma. The DMs of RRATs are consistent with them being a Galactic population, whereas FRBs have DMs well in excess of the expectation for a Galactic population. It is a decade since the discovery of FRBs and despite several clarifying discoveries and hypothetical explanations, no consensus has emerged regarding their origin. In this thesis I explore the possibility of using these FRBs as unique probes of the intergalactic magnetic eld (IGMF) by studying their polarisation via Faraday rotation. A robust method to obtain rotation measures (RMs) through Faraday rotation of single pulses was devised and tested on RRATs. This method enabled the first RM measurements of 18 known RRATs and has been applied to several FRBs. This thesis takes advantage of the recent upgrade to the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (UTMOST) to conduct surveys for FRB discoveries. I performed Monte Carlo simulations of a cosmological population of FRBs to determine the detection rate at UTMOST. The UTMOST, with its large instantaneous eld-of-view and high duty cycle, is being transformed into an FRB discovery machine that will be capable of detecting an FRB a week. The null detections during the initial two surveys, which were performed as part of commissioning science, enabled estimations of upper limits of FRB rates at 843 MHz. The third survey period at UTMOST resulted in the first interferometric detections of 3 FRBs, placing their origin at beyond the ~10000 km far- eld region of the telescope, thus ruling out terrestrial radio interference as a source. Based on these detections we estimate a rate of >78 events/sky/day above a fluence of 11 Jy ms, at 843 MHz.
Additional file 3 of Prevalence of haemosporidia in Asian Glossy Starling with discovery of misbinding of Haemoproteus-specific primer to Plasmodium genera in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
Creators: name: Noni, Vaenessa
name: Tan, Cheng Siang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. Uncropped electrophoresis gel of nested-multiplex PCR amplification of CytB gene of avian Plasmodium and Haemoproteus using primer set AE980/AE982 and AE983/AE985 producing amplicons of 580bp only. A positive amplification of Haemoproteus is indicated by the 346 bp amplicon in the positive control. Cropped region presented in the manuscript is denoted by the red box and labelled as Fig. 2A.
Additional file 4 of Prevalence of haemosporidia in Asian Glossy Starling with discovery of misbinding of Haemoproteus-specific primer to Plasmodium genera in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
Creators: name: Noni, Vaenessa
name: Tan, Cheng Siang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. Uncropped electrophoresis gel of nested PCR of amplification of CytB gene of avian Plasmodium using Haemoproteus-specific primer set HaemF/AE982 producing amplicons of 820bp only. Cropped region presented in the manuscript is denoted by the red box and labelled as Fig. 2B.
Development and Characterization of Alternatively Activated Macrophages in the Treatment of Colitis
Creators: name: Leung, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Pathology
subject: Alternatively activated macrophage
subject: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
subject: Cell-based therapy

description: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) encompasses two forms of chronic colitis: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The prevalence of IBD continues to increase, especially in Westernized countries, and there still remains a lack of a cure. Cell-based therapies have gained momentum as a promising therapy for IBD among other diseases. However there is a paucity of research exploring the use of macrophages as a therapeutic cell. Although macrophages are often considered pro-inflammatory, activation by IL-4 induces an anti-inflammatory phenotype known as an alternatively activated macrophage (AAM). This work shows for the first time that an adoptive transfer of IL-4-treated bone marrow-derived macrophages can attenuate mouse models of both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, the latter of which is of novel importance considering that AAMs are associated with Th2 environments and ulcerative colitis is considered a Th2-like disease. Currently used treatments can lose efficacy over time, however we have tested multiple AAM administrations to treat multiple bouts of colitis and found no loss in efficacy with no overt fibrosis as a potential adverse event when examined by a collagen assay, PCR, or Masson’s trichrome stain. Treatment with AAMs was effective when administered before or after the induction of colitis, while cryopreservation—-as therapeutic macrophages would be stored for convenience—-did not affect their ability block colitis. The anti-inflammatory activity was dependent on their expression of IL-10 and integrin β7 (of the gut homing receptor α4β7), but independent of recipient macrophages or lymphocytes, and CCR2 or CX3CR1 expression on AAMs. Transferred macrophages managed to retain their AAM phenotype as assessed by Arg1 and MRC1 expression, and were localised preferentially to the colon of mice with colitis. As an autologous transfer would be ideal, monocytes from patients with IBD were evaluated in their capacity to become alternatively activated in response to IL-4. Macrophages were found to have reduced expression of AAM markers compared to controls, which was not associated with differential IL-4Rα expression, and pre-application of an inflammatory cytomix partially reduced the AAM phenotype. Herein we propose that cultured AAMs can be used as a safe and effective therapy for all forms of IBD.
title: Videografie in der Lehrer*innenbildung
Creators: name: Hauenschild, Katrin
name: Schmidt-Thieme, Barbara
name: Wolff, Dennis
name: Zourelidis, Sabrina
Publisher: name: UVH - Universitätsverlag Hildesheim
Year: 2020

description: Hildesheimer Beiträge zur Schul- und Unterrichtsforschung
Finite-size effects in strongly interacting Rydberg gases
Creators: name: Gärttner, M.
name: Heeg, K. P.
name: Gasenzer, T.
name: Evers, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scaling of the number of Rydberg excitations in a laser-driven cloud of atoms with the interaction strength is found to be affected by the finite size of the system. The scaling predicted by a theoretical model is compared with results extracted from a numerical many-body simulation. We find that the numerically obtained scaling exponent in general does not agree with the analytical prediction. By individually testing the assumptions leading to the theoretical prediction using the results from the numerical analysis, we identify the origin of the deviations, and explain it as arising from the finite size of the system. Furthermore, finite-size effects in the pair correlation function $g^{(2)}$ are predicted. Finally, in larger ensembles, we find that the theoretical predictions and the numerical results agree, provided that the system is sufficiently homogeneous.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 5 of Prevalence of haemosporidia in Asian Glossy Starling with discovery of misbinding of Haemoproteus-specific primer to Plasmodium genera in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
Creators: name: Noni, Vaenessa
name: Tan, Cheng Siang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. Uncropped electrophoresis gel of nested PCR of amplification of CytB gene of avian Leucocytozoon using nested primer set HaemFL/HaemRL2 producing amplicon of 523 bp. Cropped regions presented in the manuscript is denoted by the red box and labelled as Fig. 2C.
Search for star-planet interaction
Creators: name: Krejcova, Tereza
name: Budaj, Jan
name: Koza, Julius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the chromospherical activity of stars with extrasolar planets and search for a possible correlation between the equivalent width of the core of Ca II K line and orbital parameters of the planet. We found a statistically significant evidence that the equivalent width of the Ca II K line reversal, which originates in the stellar chromosphere depends on the orbital period P_orb of the exoplanet. Planets orbiting stars with T_eff < 5500 K and with P_orb < 20 days generally have much stronger emission than planets at similar temperatures but at longer orbital periods. P_orb=20 days marks a sudden change in behaviour, which might be associated with a qualitative change in the star-planet interaction.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 282: "From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets:Essential Modeling Tools "