cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spectroscopy of new brown dwarf members of rho Ophiuchi and an updated initial mass function
Creators: name: de Oliveira, C. Alves
name: Moraux, E.
name: Bouvier, J.
name: Bouy, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To investigate the universality hypothesis of the initial mass function in the substellar regime, the population of the rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud is analysed by including a new sample of low-mass spectroscopically confirmed members. To that end, we have conducted a large spectroscopic follow-up of young substellar candidates uncovered in our previous photometric survey. The spectral types and extinction were derived for a newly found population of substellar objects, and its masses estimated by comparison to evolutionary models. A thoroughly literature search was conducted to provide an up-to-date census of the cluster, which was then used to derive the luminosity and mass functions, as well as the ratio of brown dwarfs to stars in the cluster. These results were then compared to other young clusters. It is shown that the study of the substellar population of the rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud is hampered only by the high extinction in the cluster ruling out an apparent paucity of brown dwarfs. The discovery of 16 new members of rho Ophiuchi, 13 of them in the substellar regime, reveals the low-mass end of its population and shows the success of our photometric candidate selection with the WIRCam survey. The study of the brown dwarf population of the cluster reveals a high disk fraction of 76 (+5-8)%. Taking the characteristic peak mass of the derived mass function and the ratio of brown dwarfs to stars into account, we conclude that the mass function of rho Ophiuchi is similar to other nearby young clusters.
description: Accepted to A&A (30 December 2011); v2 includes language editing
Mass ratio from Doppler beaming and Rømer delay versus ellipsoidal modulation in the Kepler data of KOI-74
Creators: name: Bloemen, S.
name: Marsh, T. R.
name: Degroote, P.
name: Østensen, R. H.
name: Pápics, P. I.
name: Aerts, C.
name: Koester, D.
name: Gänsicke, B. T.
name: Breedt, E.
name: Lombaert, R.
name: Pyrzas, S.
name: Copperwheat, C. M.
name: Exter, K.
name: Raskin, G.
name: Van Winckel, H.
name: Prins, S.
name: Pessemier, W.
name: Frémat, Y.
name: Hensberge, H.
name: Jorissen, A.
name: Van Eck, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a light curve analysis and radial velocity study of KOI-74, an eclipsing A star + white dwarf binary with a 5.2 day orbit. Aside from new spectroscopy covering the orbit of the system, we used 212 days of publicly available Kepler observations and present the first complete light curve fitting to these data, modelling the eclipses and transits, ellipsoidal modulation, reflection, and Doppler beaming. Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations are used to determine the system parameters and uncertainty estimates. Our results are in agreement with earlier studies, except that we find an inclination of 87.0 \pm 0.4\degree, which is significantly lower than the previously published value. We find that the mass ratio derived from the radial velocity amplitude (q=0.104 \pm 0.004) disagrees with that derived from the ellipsoidal modulation (q=0.052 \pm 0.004} assuming corotation). This was found before, but with our smaller inclination, the discrepancy is even larger than previously reported. Accounting for the rapid rotation of the A-star is found to increase the discrepancy even further by lowering the mass ratio to q=0.047 \pm 0.004. These results indicate that one has to be extremely careful in using the amplitude of an ellipsoidal modulation signal in a close binary to determine the mass ratio, when a proof of corotation is not firmly established. The radial velocities that can be inferred from the detected Doppler beaming in the light curve are found to be in agreement with our spectroscopic radial velocity determination. We also report the first measurement of Rømer delay in a light curve of a compact binary. This delay amounts to -56 \pm 17 s and is consistent with the mass ratio derived from the radial velocity amplitude. The firm establishment of this mass ratio at q=0.104 \pm 0.004 leaves little doubt that the companion of KOI-74 is a low mass white dwarf.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Electron Impact Induced Loss of C-5/C-8 Substituents of 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroisoquinolines, VI, Synthesis and Mass Spectrometric Fragmentation of Dihydroindole Derivatives
Creators: name: Knefeli, F.
name: Mayer, K. K.
name: Wiegrebe, Wolfgang
name: Schlunegger, U. P.
name: Lauber, R.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie

description: The syntheses of the C-4 substituted dihydroindoles 25, 31 (scheme 7), and 36 (scheme 8) are described. - The CID MIKE spectrum in the 2. field free region (2. FFR) of m/z 146 from 25 is very similar to but not identical with that of m/z 146 from the C-5 substituted tetrahydroisoquinolines 3,6, 7, and 8 (scheme 2), so supporting our hypothesis of a rearrangement in M+. of tetrahydroisoquinolines prior to fragmentation, but not proving i t As the CID MIKE spectra of the tetrahydroisoquinolines 3, 6,7, and 8 are not identical among each other we assume that a 1.3-H-shift takes places in their M+. in competition to the rearrangement mentioned above. Die Herstellung der C-4-substituierten Dihydroindole 25,31 (Schema 7) und 36 (Schema 8) wird beschrieben. - Das CID MIKE-Spektrum im 2. feldfreien Raum (2. FFR) von m/z 146 aus 25 ist sehr ähnlich aber nicht identisch mit den entspr. Spektren von m/z 146 aus den C-5-substituierten Tetrahydroisochinolinen 3,6,7 und 8 (Schema 2). Dies stützt unsere Arbeitshypothese einer Umlagerung in den M+. von Tetrahydroisochinolinen vor der Fragmentierung, beweist sie aber nicht Da die CID MDCE-Spektren der Tetrahydroisochinoline 3,6,7 und 8 unter sich nicht identisch sind, nehmen wir an, daß ein 1.3-H-shift in den M+. der Tetrahydroisochinoline zusätzlich zu der o. a. Umlagerung stattfindet.
LA EDUCACIÓN DE ADULTOS EN CENTROS PENITENCIARIOS DE LA UNIÓN EUROPEA EN EL ALUMNADO CON DISCAPACIDAD. APORTACIONES DEL MÉTODO COM-T.
Creators: name: Castro-Martínez, Ana M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: TESIS DOCTORAL ESCUELA INTERNACIONAL DE DOCTORADO UNED
Predictors of Response to Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment in Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder
Creators: name: McLellan, Quinn Kenneth
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: adolescent
subject: Major depressive disorder
subject: repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
subject: neuroimaging
subject: biomarkers
subject: predictors of response
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Psychology--Clinical

description: Adolescent major depressive disorder has limited treatment options and response is unpredictable. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a novel treatment option while pre-treatment cortical thickness may be an objective biomarker predictive of response. Twenty-three youth (12-21 years; 11 female) with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) underwent 3 weeks of high-frequency rTMS. Baseline left rostral middle frontal gyrus (lRMF) thickness was compared between eventual responders, non-responders and age-matched controls (n=16; 10 female). Symptom-specific treatment response, defined as ≥50% symptom reduction, was evaluated. Demographic and symptom profile differences were explored. Interventional rTMS alleviated both anxious and depressive symptoms. lRMF was thinner in responders than non-responders, and age negatively correlated with lRMF thickness in controls but not TRD subjects. Exploration of demographic and symptom variables showed responders on the depressive measure had greater frequency of past suicide attempts and higher atypical symptom cluster score while social phobia was associated with non-responsiveness.
Interaction-Preserving Compilers for Secure Computation
Creators: name: Döttling, Nico
name: Goyal, Vipul
name: Malavolta, Giulio
name: Raizes, Justin
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: In this work we consider the following question: What is the cost of security for multi-party protocols? Specifically, given an insecure protocol where parties exchange (in the worst case) Γ bits in N rounds, is it possible to design a secure protocol with communication complexity close to Γ and N rounds? We systematically study this problem in a variety of settings and we propose solutions based on the intractability of different cryptographic problems. For the case of two parties we design an interaction-preserving compiler where the number of bits exchanged in the secure protocol approaches Γ and the number of rounds is exactly N, assuming the hardness of standard problems over lattices. For the more general multi-party case, we obtain the same result assuming either (i) an additional round of interaction or (ii) the existence of extractable witness encryption and succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge. As a contribution of independent interest, we construct the first multi-key fully homomorphic encryption scheme with message-to-ciphertext ratio (i.e., rate) of 1 − o(1), assuming the hardness of the learning with errors (LWE) problem. We view our work as a support for the claim that, as far as interaction and communication are concerned, one does not need to pay a significant price for security in multi-party protocols.
Toward A Normative Theory of Normative Marketing Theory
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Ian
name: Young, Louise
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how different approaches to developing marketing strategies depending on the type of environment a firm faces, where environments are distinguished in terms of their systems properties not their context. Particular emphasis is given to turbulent environments in which outcomes are not a priori predictable and are not traceable to individual firm actions and we show that, in these conditions, the relevant unit of competitive response and understanding is no longer the individual firm but the network of relations comprising interdependent, interacting firms. Networks of relations are complex adaptive systems that are more 'intelligent' than the individual firms that comprise them and are capable of comprehending and responding to more complex and turbulent environments. Yet they are co-produced by the patterns of actions and interactions of the firms involved. The creation and accessing of such distributed intelligence cannot be centrally directed, as this necessarily limits it. Instead managers and firms are involved in a kind of participatory planning and adaptation process through which the network self-organises and adapts. Drawing on research in systems theory, complexity, biology and cognitive science, extensions to the resource-based theory of the firm are proposed that include how resources are linked across relations and network in a dynamic and evolutionary way. The concept of an extended firm and soft assembled strategies are introduced to describe the nature of the strategy development process. This results in a more theoretically grounded basis for understanding the nature and role of relationship and network strategies in marketing and management. We finish by considering the research implications of our analysis and the role of agent based models as a means of sensitising and informing management action.
description: 27 pages, 1 Figure
Decay of correlations for nonuniformly expanding systems with general return times
Creators: name: Melbourne, Ian
name: Terhesiu, Dalia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a unified treatment of decay of correlations for nonuniformly expanding systems with a good inducing scheme. In addition to being more elementary than previous treatments, our results hold for general integrable return time functions under fairly mild conditions on the inducing scheme.
Vinceten, ein Benzopyrroloisochinolin-Alkaloid aus Cynanchum vincetoxicum (L.) Pers. (Asclepiadaceae)
Creators: name: Budzikiewicz, H.
name: Faber, L.
name: Herrmann, E.-G.
name: Perrollaz, F. F.
name: Schlunegger, U.P .
name: Wiegrebe, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie

description: Cynanchum vincetoxicum (L.) Pers. enthält Spuren eines Alkaloids C22H27NO3, dessen Struktur als 6-(3-Hydroxy-os-l-butenyl)-2,3-dimethoxy-7,9,10,11,11 a, 12-hexahydrobenzo[/]pyrrolo[ 1,2-b]- isochinolin (2) geklärt und durch Synthese des rac-Dihydrodesoxy-Derivates 18 gesichert wurde. Cynanchum vincetoxicum contains traces of an alkaloid C22H27NO3, whose structure has been shown to be 6-(3-hydroxy-c/5-l-butenyl)-2,3-dimethoxy-7,9,10,ll,lla,12-hexahydrobenzo[/lpyrrolo[ l,2-Z?]isoquinoline (2) and has been confirmed by synthesis of the rac-dihydrodesoxyderivative 18.
Neutrino Energy Reconstruction and the Shape of the CCQE-like Total Cross Section
Creators: name: Nieves, J.
name: Sanchez, F.
name: Simo, I. Ruiz
name: Vacas, M. J. Vicente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that because of the multinucleon mechanism effects, the algorithm used to reconstruct the neutrino energy is not adequate when dealing with quasielastic-like events, and a distortion of the total flux unfolded cross section shape is produced. This amounts to a redistribution of strength from high to low energies, which gives rise to a sizable excess (deficit) of low (high) energy neutrinos. This distortion of the shape leads to a good description of the MiniBooNE unfolded CCQE-like cross sections published in Phys.Rev. D81 (2010) 092005. However, these changes in the shape are artifacts of the unfolding process that ignores multinucleon mechanisms.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. Some references and comments added
title: Building Materials: an installed composition
Creators: name: Lloyd, O
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2015

description: This research project extends my creative work and unpacks my interest in the use of sonification and mapping as compositional strategies, both in my own practice and more broadly. The thesis reflects on the installed composition, 'Building Materials', synthesising a methodology for the creation of similar works by exploring research problems arising from its creation. The thesis considers the tension between the apparently objective process of mapping and the personal, intuitive, nature of creative practice. This tension establishes a space of uncertainty into which viewers can respond imaginatively to a work built on unseen mappings, granting an audience a sense of the sonified phenomenon. These themes are discussed, and two discrete terms are arrive at: 'installed composition' and 'reverse mapping'. The first contextualises my practice with a descriptor that can help an audience usefullly situate the work and by extension others similar, while the second proposes a model for reading work made using these processes that centres on the relationship between the actual mapped phenomenon and a speculative version in an audience's mind.
From Law to Engineering: A Computer Science Perspective on Privacy & Data Protection
Creators: name: Marnau, Ninja
name: Sorge, Christoph
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Privacy and data protection regulation tries to strike a balance between legitimate data use and the right to personal privacy. Nevertheless, the advances in computer science pose new challenges to this careful balance. Data-driven analytics as well as resulting data use and business models e.g. for machine learning, big data and automated decision-making threaten to make individuals, their behaviour and their decision-making completely transparent and predictable, deepening the power asymmetry between individuals and data controllers. But the nature of computer science with regards to privacy is Janus-faced. The ever-progressing digitalization also requires digital solutions for effective privacy protection. Computer science can and has to act as an enabler of privacy-friendly data processing. The role of privacy engineering and privacy-enhancing technologies by far exceeds just guaranteeing legal compliance. In fact, the crucial value of privacy engineering is to lessen the latent conflict arising from this power asymmetry by empowering the individual and building trust by giving technical privacy assurances. In this chapter, we discuss the core concepts of privacy engineering, provide some examples of the state of the art, and discuss the relation between privacy principles and technical measures.
Fragmentierungsreaktionen bei Naphtalin-Derivaten mit C4-Seitenketten
Creators: name: Wiegrebe, Wolfgang
name: Schlunegger, U. P.
name: Perrollaz, F. F.
name: Riedl, P.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie

description: Von Naphthalin- bzw. 2,3-Dimethoxynaphthalin-Derivaten mit A2-Butenon(3)-, A2-Butenol- (3)-, 3-Acetoxybuten(2)-, Butanol(3)-, 3-Acetoxybutan- und Butan-Seitenketten werden mit einer Ausnahme C4-Bruchstücke abgespalten. With one exception, derivatives of naphthalene and 2,3-dimethoxynaphthalene having 3-hydroxy- 2-butenyl, 3-acetoxy-2-butenyl, 3-hydroxybutyl, 3-acetoxybutyl or butyl side-chains lose C 4 fragments during mass spectrometry.
title: Writing not drowning: an examination of the issues discussed in the novel Summer of Love, and of the creative and contextual research supporting its creation
Creators: name: Bush, T.N
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2016

description: This PhD submission consists of a novel, 'The Summer of Love', and a supporting thesis. Together, novel and thesis comprise and address the research inquiry underpinning the novel's creation, namely: how is it possible to write fiction exploring political issues, the UK Government's treatment of disabled people and the associated stigmatisation of welfare dependents, without flattening the story or appearing partisan or divisive? Is it possible for this novelist to capture difficult truths from the political and social landscape in prose that combines humour with insight? 'The Summer of Love' is a darkly satirical novel in which Alex, a disabled journalist fallen on hard times, uncovers a story that could link the govenment to a euthanasia programme targeting disabled, elderly and vulnerable people. During her investigation, she inadvertently becomes part of the Ladies' Defective Agency, a group of disabled women running a phone sex company which, in turn, may or may not be fronting for the underground activist gang, BOUDICCA. Alex and her guide dog, Chris, must negotiate a world where anyone reliant on any form of welfare is pilloried, scapegoated and a potential target of hate crime, in order to bring the uncomfortable truth to an oblivious society. The novel intends to bring forward challenging ideas about compassion, human rights and equality, about disability and normalcy, reflecting my/our worst nightmares about the current welfare changes and their impact on disabled and vulnerable people. Following extensive research and experiment, several key creative techniques are specified and applied including: 1) Immersion in historical texts in order to write scenarios and characters that would create a resonance with the T4Aktion plans for Nazi Germany 2) Conscientious development of a fully rounded, three dimensional disabled protagonist, in order to reflect our shared human experience and not just a 'disabled' experience 3) The use of satire and humour to create further narrative empathy through a shared, cathartic response of laughter followed by understanding and 4) Employment of the notion of 'protective fictionality', allowing the reader to escape into a slightly more fantastical 'Other England', where they can imaginatively inhabit the minds of animals as well as people. This was done in the hope that a more relaxed reader would be a more amenable, empathic and absorbed one. By applying these creative tactics, I hope, 'The Summer of Love' creates strong narrative empathic connections with its readers that may lead to a greater understanding of the current climate of hostility and shame faced by vulnerable and disabled people in the UK today, whilst at the same time providing an entertaining and exhilarating read.
A Classical Approach in Simple Nuclear Fusion Reaction 1H2 + 1H3 using Two-Dimension Granular Molecular Dynamics Model
Creators: name: Viridi, Sparisoma
name: Kurniadi, Rizal
name: Waris, Abdul
name: Perkasa, Yudha Satya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular dynamics in 2-D accompanied by granular model provides an opportunity to investigate binding between nuclei particles and its properties that arises during collision in a fusion reaction. A fully classical approach is used to observe the influence of initial angle of nucleus orientation to the product yielded by the reaction. As an example, a simplest fusion reaction between 1H2 and 1H3 is observed. Several products of the fusion reaction have been obtained, even the unreported ones, including temporary 2He4 nucleus.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, submitted to International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Science and Engineering (ICANSE) 2011
The probability densities of the first hitting times of Bessel processes
Creators: name: Hamana, Yuji
name: Matsumoto, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We are concerned with the first hitting times of the Bessel processes. We give explicit expressions for the densities by means of the zeros of the Bessel functions and show their asymptotic behavior.
description: 9 pages
title: Madness and monologic fiction: a writer's journey through selected first-person literary constructs of the aberrant voice and, Headlong, a novel
Creators: name: Hervé, A
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation comprises a novel and a critical study. The novel is a predominantly first-person fictional text with a protagonist prone to psychosis; and the critical study, which transcribes the research journey that sustained and supported the novel, analyses signifiers of madness in a selection of first-person fictional representations and reflects upon their suitability for adaptation by the contemporary creative writer. In the Introduction to the critical element, I summarise the themes, the breadth of the analysis, and the criteria by which I focus my inquiries. I consider the influence of history, culture, geography, gender, and genre on the fictional voices of the mad. Chapter One investigates motivations and masks of madness, where the term 'motivation' is used in the sense of an actor researching the background to a part, and 'masks' - another thespian contrivance - describes the artifices that authors employ in order to obscure or regulate literary madness. This chapter contrasts some of the back-stories - or 'crack-stories' - of fictional madness. Chapter Two evaluates a selection of signs and symbols of madness in fiction, and examines specific stylistic techniques that creative writers exploit to suggest the active presence of insanity. The Conclusion summarises the contextualising research with an analysis of how these literary signifiers of madness have affected the composition of my own novel, 'Headlong', which completes the dissertation and follows the Bibliographies. I engage with applicable data from various areas of expertise during the dissertation; in particular, I reference works by psychologists, psychoanalysts, and social and cultural historians.
Mass-imbalanced Fermi gases with spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Iskin, M.
name: Subasi, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the mean-field theory to analyze the ground-state phase diagrams of spin-orbit coupled mass-imbalanced Fermi gases throughout the BCS-BEC evolution, including both the population-balanced and -imbalanced systems. Our calculations show that the competition between the mass and population imbalance and the Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC) gives rise to very rich phase diagrams, involving normal, superfluid and phase separated regions. In addition, we find quantum phase transitions between the topologically trivial gapped superfluid and the nontrivial gapless superfluid phases, opening the way for the experimental observation of exotic phenomena with cold atom systems.
description: 4 pages with 4 figures; some changes in the context
The Adjectives of Yueqing
Creators: name: Lu, Xufan
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Yueqing
subject: Chinese
subject: syntactic category
subject: adjective
subject: lexical aspect
subject: situation type
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This thesis explores the question of whether Yueqing, a Southern Chinese variety, has a category of adjectives. It explores the morpho-syntactic properties of nouns, verbs and adjectives, and proposes that adjectival concepts are expressed by words that belong to the syntactic category of verbs in the language. It further examines the aspectual classification of adjectival verbs and non-adjectival verbs, and finds that adjectival verbs are a subclass of stative verbs. It also finds that although bare adjectival verbs behave like stative verbs, they are special stative verbs that have the potential to undergo aspectual coercion and represent situations that are similar to activities and achievements.
title: Literary transgressions: constructing a transgender character within a historical novel, and Rainbow, a novel
Creators: name: Wolf, J
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation comprises a novel and contextualising research. This study deals with the creative and political problems that emerge when a writer attempts to write a convincing transgender character in a historical novel. It is both critical and intensely personal as it takes full account of both my feminist and my transgender points of view and refers to my own experience of living in a transgender body. Sometimes its focus is emotional and political. The study comprises two chapters and a conclusion. In the opening chapter I engage with De Beauvoir's comment that to be a 'man' is to be 'one', and describe how my own gender identity has influenced my construction of Mary Anne Ashley/Paul Smith in 'Rainbow'. I describe my usage of Somerset dialect as an attempt to unsettle the privileged position of standard English and my intention to make the gendered word 'boy' signify a masculine position that is not defined by anatomy. Finally I suggest that it can be hard for a transgender writer to inhabit a fictional transgender voice in a culture that has historically attempted to silence both. The second chapter deals with three novels whose writers have attempted to write from the viewpoint of a transgender character. I explore specific scenes from two of these novels in the light of both lesbian-feminist and transsexual criticisms (primarily those of Judith Halberstam and Jay Prosser). I then describe how I have attempted to subvert both the tropes of the 'mirror scene' ('The Well of Loneliness') and the 'transphobic attack' ('Sacred Country'). I finally investigate Eugenides' construction of Cal/liope from 'Middlesex' from a specifically trans viewpoint and suggest that it is problematic artistically and politically. The conclusion deals with how successful I consider my construction of a transgender character and transgender voice to have been, and looks toward the future.
Electrochemical integration of graphene with light absorbing copper-based thin films
Creators: name: Padmanabhan, Medini
name: Roy, Kallol
name: Ramalingam, Gopalakrishnan
name: Raghavan, Srinivasan
name: Ghosh, Arindam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an electrochemical route for the integration of graphene with light sensitive copper-based alloys used in optoelectronic applications. Graphene grown using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) transferred to glass is found to be a robust substrate on which photoconductive Cu_{x}S films of 1-2 um thickness can be deposited. The effect of growth parameters on the morphology and photoconductivity of Cu_{x}S films is presented. Current-voltage characterization and photoconductivity decay experiments are performed with graphene as one contact and silver epoxy as the other.
Synthesis, characterization and model reactivity of ultra dispersed catalysts for hydroprocessing
Creators: name: Vasquez, Alejandro
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 65-70
description: Heavy oils are playing a significant role in the world energy market. Due to their high content of impurities, they require advanced technologies for their production and refining. Existing supported catalysts, with macroscopic particle size, suffer severe deactivation in the conventional hydroprocessing of heavy oil fractions. Ultra-dispersed (UD) catalysts are an alternative technology for heavy oil hydroprocessing. Their reduced particle size can penetrate the intricate network of heavy molecules to increase the production of cleaner and lower molecular weight fractions. In addition, UD particles have higher catalytic activity resulting from a greater surface area, leading to an increased number of active sites with no pore restrictions. In this study, sub-micron/nano size UD catalysts were synthesized via water in oil emulsions in a continuous mode particularly designed for online application to conventional or in situ hydroprocessing. Specifically, the highest activity synergism for UD catalyst of Ni-W and Co-Mo was found.
title: Interior landscapes: techniques for depicting the nuances of interracial relationships
Creators: name: Sharfeddin, H
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2016

description: This research explores techniques for depicting interracial relationships, and their accomanying racial and cultural tensions, in fiction with an emphasis on Native American literature. This includes an examination of assuming other ethnicities through character development, and the line between appropriating racial identity and demonstrating empathy for characters regardless of races. This research specifically addresses techniques for illustrating the post-Civil Rights tensions between Euroamericans and Native Americans within the Interior West. As a non-Native American author native to the American West, I also identify the obstacles and strategies for including interracial relationships within my own work, a novel titled A Delicate Divide, which is based on a historic event: The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes’ water compact proposal that threatens to strip land owner —primarily white—of their water rights within reservation borders. This research discusses Cosmopolitan and Nationalist arguments in favor and against non-Native merican depiction of Indians1 in fiction, and traces the progression of Euroamerican characterization within Native American fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through its examination of this aspect of racial tension, this research illustrates the arc of sentiment toward the colonizing race from early in the twentieth century, through the Civil Rights Movement and Wounded Knee II in 1973 (a significant event in Indian history), and into contemporary literature. An important outcome of this research has been my own personal understanding of the methods used to create fictional characters with varying viewpoints on race, including extreme racism, without making the overall nature of the work racist. I examine authors whose work deals heavily in themes of racial identity, racism, and cultural tensions between the colonizing race and the oppressed races. These authors also clearly illuminate the hardships of race relations from each of their characters’ perspectives. This paper discusses my approach to interracial fiction through the use of a third-race or “outsider” perspective to tease out racial stereotypes and cultural differences; the concept of imperative racism as a way in which characters overcome racism; and the use of self-directed racism as a technique for dispelling racial biases. Lastly, I highlight the predominant depiction of reservation life in literature as that of addiction, abuse, and poverty, with methods for updating depictions to a modern industry- and education-focused community, which is present on many of today’s reservations.
title: Two-tone detectives: cross-cultural crime in Chester Himes' Harlem Cycle novels [and] Black Bush City Limits
Creators: name: O'Donoghue, J
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2016

description: This thesis comprises a dissertation, ‘Two-Tone Detectives: Cross-Cultural Crime in Chester Himes’ Harlem Cycle Novels’; and Black Bush City Limits, a novel set amongst the ‘murphoisie’ of Irish London. The focus of the dissertation is an exploration of Himes’ expansion of the terms of the crime novel to countenance the broader theme of crimes against humanity, specifically slavery and its legacy in the United States of America following Emancipation in 1865. The dissertation argues that Himes takes a subaltern genre and by means of resisting the formulaic limitations of crime fiction introduces discourses not usually associated with the genre, such as folk tales, the Absurd, aspects of comedy derived from Elizabethan theatre, carnival, and the historical novel. The dissertation argues that Himes does not consistently manage to blend all of these elements successfully, and that his final unfinished novel, Plan B, fails to realise the potential of Himes’ subaltern genre. My novel, Black Bush City Limits, is an attempt to create a novel in the subaltern genre I argue Himes experiments with in the Harlem Cycle. In Black Bush City Limits a series of murders take place in and around the Dolmen Irish Centre in North London. Mick Kavanagh, a worker at the Centre, investigates these murders. His story is interrupted by extracts from a tranche of letters sent to him by his dying uncle in Ireland. These are by his Victorian forebear, Margaret Kavanagh, alive at the time of the Famine in Ireland. As the novel progresses the significance of these letters becomes apparent, and the two stories are gradually brought together. My dissertation contains a concluding chapter in which I trace where my own novel applies lessons learned from Himes’ example, and where I depart from him.
Deserts and pile-ups in the distribution of exoplanets due to photoevaporative disc clearing
Creators: name: Alexander, R. D.
name: Pascucci, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present models of giant planet migration in evolving protoplanetary discs. We show that disc clearing by EUV photoevaporation can have a strong effect on the distribution of giant planet semi-major axes. During disc clearing planet migration is slowed or accelerated in the region where photoevaporation opens a gap in the disc, resulting in "deserts" where few giant planets are found and corresponding "pile-ups" at smaller and larger radii. However, the precise locations and sizes of these features are strong functions of the efficiency of planetary accretion, and therefore also strongly dependent on planet mass. We suggest that photoevaporative disc clearing may be responsible for the pile-up of ~Jupiter-mass planets at ~1AU seen in exoplanet surveys, and show that observations of the distribution of exoplanet semi-major axes can be used to test models of both planet migration and disc clearing.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Synthesis and photophysical properties of novel porphyrin dendrimers containing organoiron complexes
Creators: name: Alsehli, Mosa Halal
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Dendritic porphyrins and metalloporphyrins are of great interest for their applications in many fields such as light-energy conversion, photodynamic therapy (PDT), third-order nonlinear optical materials, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) devices, fluorescence switches, and molecular wires. The synthesis and preliminary photophysical properties of novel porphyrin and metalloporphyrin dendrimers containing cationic η⁶-chloroarene-η⁵- cyclopentadienyliron(II) complexes functionalized with naphthalene and capped with ferrocene are described. The incorporation of cationic η⁶-chloroarene-η⁵-cyclopentadienyliron moieties can enhance solubility and facilitate nucleophilic aromatic substitution and addition reactions due to the intense electron-withdrawing ability of the iron center. Divergent approaches were employed to give highly symmetrical branched materials. The preparation of these dendrimers was achieved via metal-mediated nucleophilic aromatic substitutions and Steglich esterifications. These dendrimers and their precursors were characterized through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and ultraviolet-visible and fluorescence spectroscopy.
Secure the Clones
Creators: name: Jensen, Thomas
name: Kirchner, Florent
name: Pichardie, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.1.2, F.3.1, F.3.3, D.3.3

description: Exchanging mutable data objects with untrusted code is a delicate matter because of the risk of creating a data space that is accessible by an attacker. Consequently, secure programming guidelines for Java stress the importance of using defensive copying before accepting or handing out references to an internal mutable object. However, implementation of a copy method (like clone()) is entirely left to the programmer. It may not provide a sufficiently deep copy of an object and is subject to overriding by a malicious sub-class. Currently no language-based mechanism supports secure object cloning. This paper proposes a type-based annotation system for defining modular copy policies for class-based object-oriented programs. A copy policy specifies the maximally allowed sharing between an object and its clone. We present a static enforcement mechanism that will guarantee that all classes fulfil their copy policy, even in the presence of overriding of copy methods, and establish the semantic correctness of the overall approach in Coq. The mechanism has been implemented and experimentally evaluated on clone methods from several Java libraries.
title: Ceramics and the haptic - a case study sited in Worcester Cathedral
Creators: name: Galpin, P
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2016

description: This practice-based research investigates ceramics and the haptic in relation to place, through a case study of Worcester Cathedral. A two-year residency provided an analytical frame within which the practice was developed, illuminating aspects of the Cathedral. Using clay as an interface to explore the space around me, clay became an arena in which an activity could take place, resulting in a range of ceramic works. The thesis was built on contemporary contextual ceramic discourse pertaining to the haptic, and the idea that this could be expanded through an inquiry into a specific space. On a personal level a sacred space provided a catalyst for themes to do with connection, contact and communication. The research led to the formulation of a method of interpreting the space through a haptic engagement with ceramics, underpinned in part by Paul Rodaway's model of the scope of haptic systems and Bachelard's phenomenological approach to the experience of space. The subjective aspect of the practice became a component of the research, and an on-going review was carried out via a reflection on comparative practices and audience participation. Serendipitously, the residency found an unexpected parallel via a mutual interpretation with a musician. The research discovered new ways for ceramicists to explore and describe the experience of being in a sacred space by utilising what might be called a haptic language. An unexpected result for the project was the development of a studio residency as a form of research, and the collapsing of the separation between making-as-doing and doing-as-thinking.
New physics in B_s^0 -> J/ψϕdecays?
Creators: name: El-Bennich, B.
name: de Melo, J. P. B. C.
name: Leitner, O.
name: Loiseau, B.
name: Dedonder, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After a brief review of B_s^0 - \bar B_s^0 oscillations, we discuss the weak decays B_s^0 -> J/ψϕand B_s^0 -> J/ψf_0(980) and the ratio R_{f_0/ϕ} of their decay rates in the light of recent measurements by the LHCb, D0 and CDF Collaborations. We point out that the experimental values for R_{f_0/ϕ} impose tight limits on new physics contributions to both decay channels.
description: Talk given at the Erice School on Nuclear Physics 2011: From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei, organized by A. Faessler and J. Wambach (7 pages, 2 figures)
Activity-based proteomics profiling for identification and quantification of Trichoderma reesei cellulases
Creators: name: Chen, Chi Fan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Cellulosic ethanol holds great promise as a renewable fuel to supplement gasoline. The complete conversion of cellulose involves multiple steps, one of which is the enzymatic degradation of cellulose to glucose. Trichoderma reesei (recently renamed as Hypocrea jecorina) secretes a large variety of cellulases that work synergistically in the hydrolysis of cellulose into glucose. However, enzymes tend to “die off” during biomass conversion, decreasing the efficiency of degradation, yet it is difficult to determine which enzyme in the mixture loses activity. Furthermore, significant diversity in the composition of plant cell walls requires optimization of enzyme mixture used for hydrolysis of each feedstock. In order to address the problems, tools to identify and quantitate the active enzyme species present in the enzyme mixtures are required, and would characterize the composition of the active enzymes in the hydrolysis mixtures. We proposed an activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) approach. It involves a set of chemical probes, each containing a cellulase-specific inactivating functionality to label the active enzymes in the hydrolysis mixture, and a reporter group to quantitate the modified enzymes using such reagents, the concentration of one specific enzyme could be determined based on the amount of labeled enzymes detected using the reporter group. A cellulasespecific inactivating functionality is either an affinity label or a mechanism-based inactivator incorporating a specificity-determining chemical group. To evaluate the potential inactivating functionalities, six cellobiose-based affinity labels based on reactive groups that have proved useful for other glycosidases, and two mechanism-based inactivators have been tested with the 4 principal T. reesei cellulases (provided by our collaborator) for their efficiencies. Seven of them inactivated at least one of the cellulases; among these, C-epoxypentyl cellobioside had the best overall performance. It had relatively good binding affinity and efficiency toward three cellulases, and it will be included in a second generation of ABPP probe. An enlarged inactivator library will be required to target other cellulases. Ultimately, at least one ABPP for each of the T. reesei cellulase will be generated and hopefully will prove useful to the biofuel industries.
Agreement between local and global measurements of the London penetration depth
Creators: name: Lippman, Thomas M.
name: Kalisky, Beena
name: Kim, Hyunsoo
name: Tanatar, Makariy A.
name: Bud'ko, Sergey L.
name: Canfield, Paul C.
name: Prozorov, Ruslan
name: Moler, Kathryn A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent measurements of the superconducting penetration depth in Ba(Fe_1-x Co_x)2As2 appeared to disagree on the magnitude and curvature of Δλ_{ab}(T), even near optimal doping. These measurements were carried out on different samples grown by different groups. To understand the discrepancy, we use scanning SQUID susceptometry and a tunnel diode resonator to measure the penetration depth in a single sample. The penetration depth observed by the two techniques is identical with no adjustments. We conclude that any discrepancies arise from differences between samples, either in growth or crystal preparation.
Abbaureaktionen an 3-(2'-(2"Dimethylaminoäthyl)-phenyl)iso-chromanen
Creators: name: Wiegrebe, Wolfgang
name: Stephan, H. M.
name: Fricke, J.
name: Schlunegger, U. P.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie

description: Summary: Degradation of the /?-dimethylaminoethyl sidechain of properly substituted 3-aryl-isochromanes produce inter alia the amines 2, the styrenes 3, the aldehyde 5b and the carboxylic acid 4b. The racemates of the amine 15 and the aldehyd 5b were resolved; the chiral center of the menthoxycarbonyl-hydrazone was eliminated b y ester interchange.