cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Entropy Creation in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Creators: name: Müller, Berndt
name: Schäfer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review current ideas on entropy production during the different stages of a relativistic nuclear collision. This includes recent results on decoherence entropy and the entropy produced during the hydrodynamic phase by viscous effects. We start by a discussion of decoherence caused by gluon bremsstrahlung in the very first interactions of gluons from the colliding nuclei. We then present a general framework, based on the Husimi distribution function, for the calculation of entropy growth in quantum field theories, which is applicable to the early ("glasma") phase of the collision during which most of the entropy is generated. The entropy calculated from the Husimi distribution exhibits linear growth when the quantum field contains unstable modes and the growth rateis asymptotically equal to the Kolmogorov-Sinaï (KS) entropy. We outline how the approach can be used to investigate the problem of entropy production in a relativistic heavy-ion reaction from first principles. Finally we discuss some recent results on entropy production in the strong coupling limit, as obtained from AdS/CFT duality.
description: 34 pages, 14 figures
Orientifold daughter of N=4 SYM and double-trace running
Creators: name: Liendo, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the orientifold daughter of N=4 super Yang-Mills as a candidate non-supersymmetric large N conformal field theory. In a theory with vanishing single-trace beta functions that contains scalars in the adjoint representation, conformal invariance might still be broken by renormalization of double-trace terms to leading order at large N. In this note we perform a diagrammatic analysis and argue that the orientifold daughter does not suffer from double-trace running. This implies an exact large N equivalence between this theory and a subsector of N=4 SYM.
description: 12 pages
Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks with Energy Harvesting
Creators: name: Iannello, Fabio
name: Simeone, Osvaldo
name: Spagnolini, Umberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The design of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has been conventionally tackled by assuming battery-powered devices and by adopting the network lifetime as the main performance criterion. While WSNs operated by energy-harvesting (EH) devices are not limited by network lifetime, they pose new design challenges due to the uncertain amount of harvestable energy. Novel design criteria are thus required to capture the trade-offs between the potentially infinite network lifetime and the uncertain energy availability. This paper addresses the analysis and design of WSNs with EH devices by focusing on conventional MAC protocols, namely TDMA, Framed-ALOHA (FA) and Dynamic-FA (DFA), and by accounting for the performance trade-offs and design issues arising due to EH. A novel metric, referred to as delivery probability, is introduced to measure the capability of a MAC protocol to deliver the measure of any sensor in the network to the intended destination (or fusion center, FC). The interplay between delivery efficiency and time efficiency (i.e., the data collection rate at the FC), is investigated analytically using Markov models. Numerical results validate the analysis and emphasize the critical importance of accounting for both delivery probability and time efficiency in the design of EH-WSNs.
description: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications
title: Structural and functional studies of human methionine adenosyltransferases
Creators: name: Murray, Ben
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: S-Adenosylmethionine (SAMe) is the principal methyl donor of the cell and is synthesized via an ATP-driven process by methionine adenosyltransferase (MAT) enzymes. It is tightly linked with cell proliferation in liver and colon cancer. In humans, there are three genes, MAT1A, MAT2A and MAT2B, which encode MAT enzymes. MAT2A and MAT2B transcribe MATα2 and MATβ enzyme subunits, respectively, with catalytic and regulatory roles. The MATα2β complex is expressed in nearly all tissues and is thought to be essential in providing the necessary SAMe flux for methylation of DNA and various proteins including histones. In human hepatocellular carcinoma MAT2A and MAT2B genes are upregulated, highlighting the importance of the MATα2β complex in liver disease. The individual subunits have been structurally characterized but the nature of the complex has remained elusive despite its existence having been postulated for more than 20 years and the observation that MATβ is often co-localized with MATα2. Though SAMe can be produced by MAT(α2)4 alone, this thesis shows that the kcat of the MATα2β complex is three- to four fold higher depending on the variants of MAT that participate in complex formation. Using X-ray crystallography and solution Xray scattering, the first structures are provided of this 258 kDa functional complex both in crystals and solution with an unexpected stoichiometry of 4α2 and 2βV2 subunits. It is demonstrated that the N-terminal regulates the activity of the complex and it is shown that complex formation takes place surprisingly via the C-terminal of MATβV2 that buries itself in a tunnel created at the interface of the MAT(α2)2. The structural data suggest a unique mechanism of regulation and provide a gateway for structure-based drug design in anticancer therapies. ii Crystal structures of human MATα2 containing various bound ligands providing a ‘structural movie’ of the catalytic steps are also presented. High to atomic-resolution structures reveal the structural elements of the enzyme involved in the utilization of substrates, methionine and adenosine, and the formation of the product SAMe. MAT enzymes are also able to produce S-adenosylethionine (SAE) from substrate ethionine. Ethionine, an S-ethyl analogue of the amino acid methionine, is known to induce steatosis and pancreatitis. It is shown here that S-adenosylethionine occupies the active site in a manner similar to SAMe, confirming that ethionine also binds and utilizes the same catalytic site to form the product SAE. Through by gel filtration and small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) it is shown that the catalytic MAT enzymes exist in multiple oligomeric populations in solution, whilst the regulatory MAT subunit, MATβ, is monomeric. In view of these data and recent crystallographic structures of the MAT enzyme complex, a rationalization of nomenclature for the MAT enzymes and their complexes has been produced.
"Troubling passion": negotiating the body in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
Creators: name: Berthiaume, Dominique
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: PR 4185 B47 1995
subject: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Aurora Leigh
subject: Sex role in literature
subject: Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

description: Bibliography: p. 120-123.
Adolf Schüttler, Kulturgeographie der mitteldevonischen Eifelkalkgebiete
Creators: name: Kersten, Walter
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Adolf Schüttler, Kulturgeographie der mitteldevonischen Eifelkalkgebiete. Beiträge zur Landeskunde der Rheinlande. Veröffentlichungen des geographischen Institutes der Universität Bonn, 3. Reihe; hrsg. v. Carl Troll, Heft 1. Bonn (L. Rohrscheid) 1939. 8°. 197 Seiten mit 29 Karten im Text
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 145 (1940): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
Ein spätlatènezeitliches Gräberfeld in Haldern bei Wesel
Creators: name: Uslar, Rafael Von
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 148 (1948): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
Der fränkische Friedhof in Rill bei Xanten
Creators: name: Steeger, Albert
name: Frechen, Josef
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 148 (1948): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
Enhancing Transport Efficiency by Hybrid Routing Strategy
Creators: name: Dong, J. -Q.
name: Huang, Z. -G.
name: Zhou, Z.
name: Huang, L.
name: Wu, Z. -X.
name: Do, Y.
name: Wang, Y. -H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Traffic is essential for many dynamic processes on real networks, such as internet and urban traffic systems. The transport efficiency of the traffic system can be improved by taking full advantage of the resources in the system. In this paper, we propose a dual-strategy routing model for network traffic system, to realize the plenary utility of the whole network. The packets are delivered according to different "efficient routing strategies" [Yan, et al, Phys. Rev. E 73, 046108 (2006)]. We introduce the accumulate rate of packets, η to measure the performance of traffic system in the congested phase, and propose the so-called equivalent generation rate of packet to analyze the jamming processes. From analytical and numerical results, we find that, for suitable selection of strategies, the dual- strategy system performs better than the single-strategy system in a broad region of strategy mixing ratio. The analytical solution to the jamming processes is verified by estimating the number of jammed nodes, which coincides well with the result from simulation.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
The relationship between sexual behaviour and ovarian hormone levels in captive female lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Creators: name: Schulte, Margo F.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QL 737 P96 S39 1995
subject: Gorilla - Behavior
subject: Sexual behavior in animals
subject: Hormones, Sex

description: Bibliography: p. 68-78.
title: Exploring female empowerment in Cañar: narratives of indigenous women in Andean Ecuador
Creators: name: James, Hannah
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: The notion of empowerment has become a Western ‘buzzword’ within the development lexicon over recent decades, especially in relation to improving the socioeconomic and political status of women in the developing world. By exploring narratives of Cañari indigenous women in the Ecuadorian Andes, this thesis considers the meaning of empowerment, as evolved and theorised by the West, in relation to an indigenous context. It employs an exploratory, interpretevist and phenomenological approach to understanding the everyday lived experience of individuals and how they engage with the world around them. It seeks to understand the processes that indigenous women might go through in order to become empowered, considers any potential factors that might influence processes of empowerment for indigenous women, in addition to observing the possible outcomes of empowerment in both their individual lives and for the wider community. It draws attention to the idea of collective empowerment, or power with, as a dominant feature of empowerment in Cañari women’s lives, reflecting the significance of both the family and community in indigenous culture. Focusing on the individualism that pervades Western notions of empowerment does not always fit the meaning of empowerment in non-Western societies. This thesis seeks to demonstrate how.
Predicting Personality and Mapping its Impacts in Rapidly Evolving Business Environments: A Behavioral Process Perspective
Creators: name: Härtel, Tobias Marc
Publisher: name: Universität Osnabrück
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: individual differences
subject: Brunswikian lens model
subject: (automated) personality assessment
subject: resumé screening
subject: cybervetting
subject: group leadership
subject: behavioral processes
subject: interpersonal perception
subject: telework
subject: remote leadership
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft

description: This dissertation provides empirical insights into predicting personality and mapping its impacts in rapidly evolving business environments. Following the notion of the lens model, the common core marks a set of (personality-evoked) behavioral processes, which are subject to change in dynamic business environments characterized by digitalization. Regarding this dissertation’s first focal area – Predicting Personality Based on Traditional and Novel Applicant Information (Chapter 2) – I examine (i) resumés’ (Article 2.1) and (ii) LinkedIn profiles’ (Article 2.2) predictive potential to accurately infer personality (i.e., the big five, narcissism, intelligence). I found both information bases to offer valid cues signaling personality that can be used by mechanical perceivers (machine learning algorithms) to achieve accuracy. Regarding the second focal area – Mapping Personality Traits’ Leadership Impacts in Face-to-Face and Virtual Groups (Chapter 3) – I illuminate the behavioral-perceptual group processes that explain (i) the narcissism-leadership emergence link (Article 3.1) and (ii) links between big five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, emotional stability) and leadership emergence versus effectiveness (Article 3.2). Multiple mediator models revealed distinct behavioral-perceptual pathways linking personality to leadership outcomes, enhancing the process understanding of why individuals emerge as leaders and what makes them effective. Finally, regarding the third focal area – Zooming-in on Effective Vocational Behaviors in Rapidly Changing Business Environments (Chapter 4) – I shed light on the effectiveness of (i) individual strategies reported by teleworkers to organize their work processes (Article 4.1) and (ii) perceived remote leadership behaviors (Article 4.2), including moderating boundary conditions. The findings provide insights for organizational human resource practices, foreshadowing merits of (a) automated personality inferences as a non-invasive pre-screening tool, (b) personality-evoked behaviors and impressions related to interpersonal warmth and calmness in leader selection and development, and (c) adopting a conducive work attitude and instrumental leadership behaviors in remote work scenarios. Overall, this dissertation underlines the benefits of adopting a flexible (personality-evoked) behavior-centered perspective to address critical questions on the interplay of predicting personality and mapping its impacts in dynamic business environments, contributing to the advancement of research and practical applications in this domain.
Anomalous diffusion. A competition between the very large jumps in physical and operational times
Creators: name: Stanislavsky, Aleksander
name: Weron, Karina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyze a coupling between the very large jumps in physical and operational times as applied to anomalous diffusion. The approach is based on subordination of a skewed Levy-stable process by its inverse to get two types of operational time - the spent and the residual waiting time, respectively. The studied processes have different properties which display both subdiffusive and superdiffusive features of anomalous diffusion underlying the two-power-law relaxation patterns.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures; corrected version
Tackling misinformation on social media: limiting the spread of misleading UK political news online
Creators: name: Armitage, Rachel
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Communication and media studies not elsewhere classified

description: In recent years, both society and the academy have become increasingly concerned about the proliferation of false and misleading information on social media. Whether it occurs intentionally or accidentally, the spread of such content has frightening real world consequences, permitting warped narratives to influence election outcomes, promote vaccine hesitancy and encourage climate change denialism, to name but a few. In seeking to contribute to burgeoning efforts to limit the impact of online misinformation, this thesis explores how UK social media users might be dissuaded from sharing misleading political news online. It begins by examining the psychological factors that could predispose an individual to believe and/or share false information online, identifying worldview congruence, analytic cognitive style and sharing motivation as central components influencing such sharing behaviour. It then considers how different types of social media warning labels might interact with these variables to reduce propensity to believe and/or share misleading UK political news, including by shifting participants toward a more reflective analytic cognitive style. These assumptions are accordingly tested via experiments embedded in online surveys, beginning with a small exploratory pilot study (n=94) designed to trial the survey materials and to assess whether reflective thinkers might be less susceptible to believing and sharing misleading political news in the UK context. Analysis of the pilot data reveals that this was generally the case, providing indicative support for a core assumption of the main study. Based on these results, a much larger survey (n=980) tests the effectiveness of four different warning labels at reducing belief in, and likelihood of sharing, misleading UK political news versus a baseline condition featuring the same misleading news without any label. The analysis reveals four major findings: that misleading UK political news content is generally shared by social media users because they believe it; that avenues to successfully reduce such sharing seem to differ depending on the believability of the content in question; that only threatening consequences for sharing misleading information reduces sharing likelihood regardless of content believability and a users’ overall propensity to share news; and that while helpful in aiding users to recognise and reject misleading content, reflective thinking could not be primed by any of the warning labels and instead declined following treatment exposure. These results can inform the development of successful social media interventions intended to limit the spread of misleading content, making a unique contribution to misinformation research by assessing not only the comparative effectiveness of different warning labels, but also under what circumstances, and for which social media users, they proved effective.
title: The components of public investment and economic growth : The case of the provinces of Turkey, 1975-2001
Creators: name: Yilmaz, Gokcen
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: The effect of public investment on economic growth is a popular topic in economic literature. Although there are endogenous growth models that incorporate public expenditure as a factor that promotes growth, findings in empirical literature provide conflicting results. This thesis contributes to this debate by providing a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between public investment and development by using a new panel dataset for Turkish provinces. For analyses, public investment is disaggregated as energy infrastructure, city infrastructure and security, education, health, transportation and communication, agriculture, mining, manufacturing, tourism and housing. The outcome variables are chosen as economic growth rate, the gross enrolment rate for primary and middle school, and the infant mortality rate. With regard to the econometric method, the fixed-effects technique is chosen. The dependent variables are calculated as the five-year forward moving averages of the outcome variables. Standard errors are corrected for serial correlation, cross-sectional dependence and heteroscedasticity. Findings in this thesis suggest that public investments in education, agriculture, tourism and energy infrastructure are associated with higher growth rates. There does not appear to be any statistical relationship between public city infrastructure and security investment and economic growth. However, public city infrastructure and security investment is related to the long-run gross enrolment rate positively, and the long-run infant mortality rate negatively. Additionally, public investment in energy infrastructure appears to have a negative relationship with the long-run infant mortality rate. Finally, results show that public investment in mining, transportation and communication are negatively related to the long run growth. The results provide partial support for the predictions of the model in Barro (1990) in the second chapter and the development literature in the third and the fourth chapters. Public policies in the sectors mentioned above arise as a factor that has an impact on the outcome of public investment. Post-estimation diagnostics and robustness analyses provide statistical evidence that support the findings.
Joachim Werner, Der Fund von Ittenheim. Ein alamannisches Fürstengrab des 7. Jahrhunderts im Elsaß
Creators: name: Böhner, Kurt
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Joachim Werner, Der Fund von Ittenheim. Ein alamannisches Fürstengrab des 7. Jahrhunderts im Elsaß. Straßburg (Hünenburg-Verlag) 1943. 4°. 36 Seiten mit 5 Abbildungen im Text und 11 Tafeln
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 148 (1948): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
Drug-drug interactions between antiseizure medications and antipsychotic medications: a narrative review and expert opinion
Creators: name: Besag, Frank M. C.
name: Berry, Dave
name: Vasey, Michael J.
name: Patsalos, Philip N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Antiseizure medications (ASMs) and antipsychotic drugs are frequently coadministered with the potential for drug-drug interactions. Interactions may either be pharmacokinetic or pharmacodynamic, resulting in a decrease or increase in efficacy and/or an increase or decrease in adverse effects. The clinical evidence for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic interactions between ASMs and antipsychotics is reviewed based on the results of a literature search in MEDLINE conducted in April 2023. There is now extensive published evidence for the clinical importance of interactions between ASMs and antipsychotics. Enzyme-inducing ASMs can decrease blood concentrations of many of the antipsychotics. There is also evidence that enzyme-inhibiting ASMs can increase antipsychotic blood concentrations. Similarly, there is limited evidence showing that antipsychotic drugs may affect the blood concentrations of ASMs through pharmacokinetic interactions. There is less available evidence for pharmacodynamic interactions, but these can also be important, as can displacement from protein binding. The lack of published evidence for an interaction should not be interpreted as meaning that the given interaction does not occur; the evidence is building continually. There is no substitute for careful patient monitoring and sound clinical judgment.
Philip Meadows Taylor and the construction of India, 1824-1876
Creators: name: Semple, Rhonda Anne
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: PR 5549 T36 Z88 1995
subject: Taylor, Meadows, 1808-1876
subject: India - History - 19th century

description: Bibliography: p. 132-138.
Casimir repulsion between Topological Insulators in the diluted regime
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Lopez, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Pairwise Summation Approximation (PSA) of Casimir energy is applied to a system of two dielectrics with magnetoelectric coupling. In particular, the case of Topological Insulators (TI) is studied in detail. Depending on the the optical response of the TI, we obtain a stable equilibrium distance, atraction for all distances, or repulsion for all distances at zero temperature. This equilibrium distance disappears in the high temperature limit. These results are independent on the geometry of the TI, but are only valid in the diluted approximation.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: Controlling the Formation of Conductive Pathways in Memristive Devices
Creators: name: Winkler, Robert
name: Zintler, Alexander
name: Petzold, Stefan
name: Piros, Eszter
name: Kaiser, Nico
name: Vogel, Tobias
name: Nasiou, Déspina
name: McKenna, Keith P.
name: Molina‐Luna, Leopoldo
name: Alff, Lambert
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2023

description: Resistive random‐access memories are promising candidates for novel computer architectures such as in‐memory computing, multilevel data storage, and neuromorphics. Their working principle is based on electrically stimulated materials changes that allow access to two (digital), multiple (multilevel), or quasi‐continuous (analog) resistive states. However, the stochastic nature of forming and switching the conductive pathway involves complex atomistic defect configurations resulting in considerable variability. This paper reveals that the intricate interplay of 0D and 2D defects can be engineered to achieve reproducible and controlled low‐voltage formation of conducting filaments. The author find that the orientation of grain boundaries in polycrystalline HfOₓ is directly related to the required forming voltage of the conducting filaments, unravelling a neglected origin of variability. Based on the realistic atomic structure of grain boundaries obtained from ultra‐high resolution imaging combined with first‐principles calculations including local strain, this paper shows how oxygen vacancy segregation energies and the associated electronic states in the vicinity of the Fermi level govern the formation of conductive pathways in memristive devices. These findings are applicable to non‐amorphous valence change filamentary type memristive device. The results demonstrate that a fundamental atomistic understanding of defect chemistry is pivotal to design memristors as key element of future electronics.
title: High-κ dielectrics on germanium for future high performance CMOS technology
Creators: name: Wang, Zhong
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Traditional silicon CMOS scaling has approached its limits due to the high leakage current induced by the reduction of the silicon-dioxide gate oxide thickness. Thus, high permittivity dielectric is suggested to replace SiO2 to achieve low gate leakage current while maintaining the same capacitance. Moreover, high mobility materials are being considered to replace Si as channel materials motivated by the requirement for higher drive current and faster switching speed of MOSFETs. Germanium (Ge) has attracted much attention as a channel material, attributed to its high hole and electron mobility. Overall, it could be concluded that a high-κ dielectric for the Ge gate stack could be an effective solution for future CMOS technology which could resolve these two concerns. However, surface passivation between the material high-κ and the Ge channel is a major challenge for this solution. Direct deposition of a high-κ dielectric on Ge suffers from a low-quality interface. The native oxide, GeO2 has been found to form a good interfacial layer on Ge before the deposition of a high-κ dielectric. Two methods are introduced in this work, to passivate the interface. Electrical and XPS characterization is employed to investigate the property of the interface. Several admittance behavior issues related to Ge-based MOS capacitor could lead to errors in the extraction of the interface state density using the conventional C-V or G-V based methods. The availability and scope of these methods are studied in details when applied on the Gebased MOS capacitor. Three issues related to the conductance method as a preferable method are explored. A conduction band notch which represents a potential charge trapping site may exist at the interface between the interfacial native GeO2 and high-κ dielectric layer in a Ge MOSFET gate stack. It could induce threshold voltage instability. The number of electrons and its induced threshold voltage is calculated and the main conclusion is that charge storage in this notch is insignificant at the relevant technology node. The low frequency response of the capacitance voltage characteristic is observed for the Gebased MOS capacitor in the inversion region, even at high frequency. It is considered to be the result of the fast minority carrier generation response. The extraction of activation energies through temperature measurement indicates that the thermal generation process is responsible for the generation of minority carriers at room temperature. The minority carrier generation life time is measured to model the thermal generation in the depletion region for Ge-based MOS. The frequency dispersion apparent in the accumulation regime of C-V plots for Gebased MOS is considered to be caused by oxide traps within the oxide layer. A model is employed to estimate the oxide trap concentration. It is demonstrated that the oxide traps are distributed non-uniformly over both oxide depth and energy level.
The effects of hexachlorobenzene and six polychlorinated biphenyl congeners on biochemical and metabolic parameters of the In-vitro perfused rat ovary
Creators: name: Sevcik, Margaret
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QL 737 R666 S48 1995
subject: Rats - Effects of chemicals on
subject: Rats - Physiology
subject: Ovaries
subject: Hexachlorobenzene - Toxicity testing
subject: Polychlorinated biphenyls - Toxicity testing

description: Bibliography: p. 197-206.
Solid objects: a written accompaniment to the thesis exhibition
Creators: name: Sheil, Philip Colin
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: ND 160 S53 1995
subject: Painting, Modern - 20th century
subject: Painting - Philosophy
subject: Sheil, Philip Colin - Exhibitions

description: Bibliography: p. 57-59.
description: Includes slides.
diCenzo_et_al_2021_File_S1.pdf
Creators: name: diCenzo, George
name: Cangioli, Lisa
name: Nicoud, Quentin
name: Cheng, Janis
name: Blow, Matthew
name: Shapiro, Nicole
name: Woyke, Tanja
name: Biondi, Emanuele
name: Alunni, Benoît
name: Mengoni, Alessio
name: Mergaert, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material forDNA methylation in Ensifer species during free-living growth and during nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with Medicago spp.
 George C. diCenzo, Lisa Cangioli, Quentin Nicoud, Janis H.T. Cheng, Matthew J. Blow, Nicole Shapiro, Tanja Woyke, Emanuele G Biondi, Benoît Alunni, Alessio Mengoni, and Peter Mergaert
 George diCenzoEmail: george.dicenzo@queensu.ca
File S1 includes:Figures S1 to S20Tables S1 to S8Legend for Dataset S1Supplementary References
On the dynamics of perfect fluids in non-minimally coupled gravity
Creators: name: Bertolami, Orfeu
name: Martins, António
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we explore the consequences that a non-minimal coupling between geometry and matter can have on the dynamics of perfect fluids. It is argued that the presence of a static, axially symmetric pressureless fluid does not imply a Minkowski space-time like as is in General Relativity. This feature can be atributed to a pressure mimicking mechanism related to the non-minimal coupling. The case of a spherically symmetric black hole surrounded by fluid matter is analyzed, and it is shown that under equilibrium conditions the total fluid mass is about twice that of the black hole. Finally, a generalization of the Newtonian potential for a fluid element is proposed and its implications are briefly discussed.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Martin Brice, Burgen und Wehranlagen von der Antike bis Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Zeune, Joachim
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Martin Brice, Burgen und Wehranlagen von der Antike bis Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts, Augsburg: Weltbild-Verlag 1992 (Originalausgabe: “Forts and Fortresses”, London 1990). 192 S., zahlreiche Farb- und Schwarzweißabbildungen, farbige Kleinkarten. ISBN 3-89350-351-X.
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 34 Nr. 1 (1993): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
title: Assessing the social sustainability of Chinese urban neigbourhoods: a case study of Shenzhen
Creators: name: Wang, Yu
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: There is an increasing concern arising from China’s recent urban growth in terms of sustainability from environmental, economic and social perspectives. Huge numbers of new Chinese urban neighbourhoods have been built during the past 20 years with great spatial and social changes in this process compared with the past. However, little attention has been paid to assess the planning and development of these new neighbourhoods against social sustainable criterion. This research aims to evaluate the social sustainability of new Chinese neighbourhoods and discuss its association with patterns of urban form and related planning processes. A new conceptual framework of social sustainability was developed from the relevant sustainable research based upon the Western experiences and adapted to the Chinese urban context. It included three layers, resident’s basic needs, inner social networks and the entire community development for which detailed indicators could be generated as the basis for empirical social sustainability assessments. An embedded case study methodology was applied to Shenzhen, a new megacity rising from China’s rapid urbanisation process. The methodology consisted of two-phase case studies and utilised multiple survey methods. The city-level focused on understanding the macro-context policies related to neighbourhood development process and the general spatial characteristics of urban form, in which typical patterns could be identified for neighbourhood case selection. Then neighbourhood-level case studies in the Houhai-Dengliang area were used to appraise their levels of social sustainability. The analysis suggests that there is nexus between urban form and social sustainability, with the recently emerging highly-segmented and over-intensified developments being the least socially sustainable form. Defects in the current neighbourhood development mechanisms are further identified based on the clear evidence. The research recommends that the ‘site scale’ and ‘density’ needs to be effectively controlled for new neighbourhoods, within medium ranges, if the best level of social sustainability are to be achieved. For many existing neighbourhoods, evidence also indicates that adopting a collaborative planning approach can be a pathway towards a more socially sustainable development.
title: Bonus-malus in insurance portfolios
Creators: name: Ni, Weihong
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: This thesis constitutes a research work on Bonus-Malus (BM) systems in insurance portfolios, featuring designing pricing strategies and examining associated solvency risks. The first piece of work proposed two different pricing models via the Bayesian approach. Results imply adverse attitudes towards policyholders having a history of many small claims, when the modelling for claim severities takes different forms. On the other hand, the rest of the work dedicated to embedding a BM structure under a risk analysis framework, where the focus lies in measuring the underlying ruin probabilities. It was necessary to initially investigate a discrete model where such probability could be obtained through recursions. As for a continuous model, BM feature was reflected by a Bayesian estimator for premium adjustment. Such construction normally brings in a dependence structure to the risk model thus violating classical assumptions. One way was to inspect how different it is from a classical risk model. Then through some conditional arguments one could find accordingly a solution based on results in literature. From another perspective, it has been found that for a No Claim Discount (NCD) or a Bonus system, an alteration in premium rates could be transformed equivalently to an interchange of distribution between inter-claim times. Then some Markov properties were able to be diagnosed under higher dimensions, which leads to a further possibility of computations. Results can be found in the form of simulations.
title: The Role of Bacterial Proteases in the Development of Chronic Wounds
Creators: name: Suleman, Louise
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: A large number of bacteria are able to secrete extracellular proteases that play vital roles in nutrient acquisition and biofilm formation but are also important biochemical mediators in bacterial virulence, facilitating host invasion. Microorganisms within chronic wounds have been hypothesised to form biofilms, which result in perpetuated inflammation and delayed wound closure. Whilst it is thought that exaggerated secretion of host-derived proteases within chronic wounds prevents successful wound closure, the contribution of bacterial proteases secreted from planktonic microorganisms and biofilms in chronic wound pathology has yet to be elucidated. It is therefore the primary research aim of this thesis is to assess the proteolytic activity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus isolated from equine and human chronic wounds and determine whether there is a difference in activity between planktonic-conditioned medium (PCM) and biofilm-conditioned medium (BCM). The next aim will be to identify these bacterial-derived proteases using zymography and mass spectrometry, and determine whether these proteases reduce wound closure in in vitro scratch wound models. More specifically, the effect of P. aeruginosa and S. aureus PCM and BCM from equine and human clinical isolates, and also purified proteases of these preparations, on the in vitro wound closure of equine normal fibroblasts (NFs), equine chronic wound granulation tissue fibroblasts (GTFs) and human dermal fibroblasts (HDFs), shall be investigated. In these wound models, zymography will be utilised to determine the release of host-derived matrix metalloproteases (MMPs). In this thesis I have identified, for the first time, high protease activity in equine chronic wound-derived P. aeruginosa PCM and BCM, by which 52kDa and 42kDa proteases were detected. P. aeruginosa PCM and BCM were shown to significantly reduce the wound closure of NFs (P
Assessment and remediation of earthen pits: a framework for the Alberta oil and gas industry
Creators: name: Shield, Helga Mary
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: TN 873 C22 S55 1995
subject: Petroleum industry and trade - Alberta - Environmental effects
subject: Gas industry - Alberta - Environmental aspects
subject: Sustainable development - Alberta

description: Bibliography: p. 182-194.
Peering through the transparencies of singing, gender and the music classroom
Creators: name: Sherban, Rosemarie A.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: MT 930 S547 1995
subject: Music - Instruction and study
subject: Singing - Instruction and study
subject: Sex differences in education
subject: Sex role in children

description: Bibliography: p. 150-155.
Sweetgrass innovations in native and new age communities
Creators: name: Shillibeer, Carol
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: E 98 R3 S53 1995
subject: Indians of North America - Rites and ceremonies
subject: Indians of North America - Ethnobotany
subject: Hierochloe
subject: New age movement - North America

description: Bibliography: p. 160-170.
description: This thesis is a study of contemporary practices and ritual attitudes in relation to the use of sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata) in two research populations: natives from the Northern Plains and "new agers ". Ethnographic observations on usage and ritual are reported; personal experiences and beliefs are recorded in the users' own words. Despite the similarities between neophyte practitioners and long-experienced adepts in both populations, the users' characterizations of the meaning of their actions reveals a systematic difference in "ritual attitude ". Natives' accounts seem to be predicated on "metaphoric" symbolic connections, (their behavior in relation to sweetgrass usage constrained by a sense of tradition). By contrast, new agers' accounts seem to reveal a "metonymic" pattern of relating symbols to one another, and a willingness to syncretize and to innovate personal meanings. This leads to the conclusion that the culturally common "element" of sweetgrass performs significantly different "symbolic work" in native and white contexts.
title: Investigation of atmospheric-pressure plasma discharges for thin film deposition
Creators: name: Bless, Frédéric
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Gas-phase polymerisation of different monomers has been studied for an atmospheric plasma jet predominantly using quadrupole mass spectrometry. Thin film depositions were made and analysed using XPS and TOF-SIMS. Time-resolved and time-averaged measurements were performed to understand more deeply the paths of plasma polymerisation at atmospheric pressure and in ambient air. Continuous wave and pulse DC jets were both investigated. Results show the importance of positive ions in polymerisation and support the step growth formation for the creation of heavy oligomers. Negative ions are also important and depend far more on the signal frequency, more precisely on the off-time duration, than the positive ions. Another study was performed on an adaptable plasma system for atomic layer deposition allowing deposition of oxides at room temperature. Results show a high quality of Al2O3 films realised at room temperature with air as an oxygen-rich gas with the use of a custom-built surface discharge plasma reactor.
On Metrizability of Invariant Affine Connections
Creators: name: Tanaka, Erico
name: Krupka, Demeter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The metrizability problem for a symmetric affine connection on a manifold, invariant with respect to a group of diffeomorphisms G, is considered. We say that the connection is G-metrizable, if it is expressible as the Levi-Civita connection of a G-invariant metric field. In this paper we analyze the G-metrizability equations for the rotation group G = SO(3), acting canonically on three- and four-dimensional Euclidean spaces. We show that the property of the connection to be SO(3)-invariant allows us to find complete explicit description of all solutions of the SO(3)-metrizability equations.
description: 17 pages, To appear in IJGMMP vol.9 No.1 (2012)
title: On the Reversible Sodium Plating/stripping Reaction in Porous SiCN(O) Ceramic: A Feasibility Study
Creators: name: Melzi d'Eril, Marco
name: Graczyk‐Zajac, Magdalena Joanna
name: Riedel, Ralf
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2023

description: Sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) are a cost‐effective and sustainable alternative to lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs), which might be independent of rare raw materials. These advantages come at the expense of low energy density. Sodium metal batteries (SMBs) can provide a possible solution. In this work, we present the use of a porous silicon carbonitride (SiCN(O)) ceramic as an anodic matrix for reversible Na‐plating. The role of the pores is investigated and the plating mechanism allowing reversible and uniform plating/stripping of sodium is also presented. Electrochemical studies show a stable and reversible capacity gain of around 60 mAh/g beyond the insertion capacity of the SiCN(O) ceramic over 100 cycles.
title: The properties of environmentally-friendly sandwich structures
Creators: name: Mohamed Yusoff, Mohd Zuhri
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: This research study aims to manufacture and characterise the properties of sandwich structures based on natural fibre composites. Bamboo tubes and flax-based composite (reinforced polypropylene and polylactide) were selected as the main materials to be investigated. Initial testing was focused on investigating the sensitivity of the tensile properties of the composites from various processing conditions and understanding the energy-absorbing characteristics of the individual bamboo tubes. Following this, bamboo honeycomb, bamboo-reinforced foam, corrugated flax-based composites, square and triangular interlocking flax-based composites and corrugated paperboard with flax-based composite skins were manufactured.The flax-based honeycomb and corrugated structures were manufactured using compression moulding techniques and subsequently bonded to skins based on the same material using an epoxy resin. These structures were tested in compression at quasi-static and dynamic rates of strain in order to determine their mechanical strength and specific energy absorption characteristics. It has been shown that the energy-absorbing capacity of the bamboo tubes tends to increase with decreasing inner diameter to the thickness (D/t) ratio. In addition, a chamfered profile was employed to successfully trigger the tubes to fail in a progressive manner. Bamboo tubing has been observed to offer excellent energy absorption characteristics and has potential for use inenergy-absorbing engineering applications. Tests on the flax-based composite structures have shown that the wall thickness and the number of unit cells have an effect on the strength and energy-absorbing capability of the core. The flax reinforcedpolypropylene (flax/PP) composite structures failed in buckling and fibre fracture, whereasthe flax reinforced polylactide (flax/PLA) systemfailed in buckling with delamination. Of the structures investigated here, the flax/PP cores offer superior mechanical properties to their flax/PLA counterparts. Further investigations on the effect of bonding flax/PP and flax/PLA skins to a corrugated paperboard have show that there is no significant difference in the properties between those two flax-based materials. Finally, the compression response of the square and triangular honeycomb structures has been modelled using finite element (FE) techniques. The FE model succesfully predicted the strength, energy-absorbing characteristics, buckling behaviour and failure modes observed in these natural fibre based core materials.