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Lanthanum complexes as therapeutic agents for the treatment of bone resorption disorders
Creators: name: Weekes, David Michael
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Lanthanum naturally targets and binds skeletal tissue in living systems, wherein it has the potential to treat bone resorption disorders by invoking a biological response that counteracts an imbalanced bone remodeling cycle. Because lanthanum is very poorly absorbed, the key to realizing this potential is through rational chelator design, and in this regard, a number of lanthanum complexes have been designed, synthesized, and tested in an effort to develop an orally-active drug. Previously, past group members Dr. Cheri Barta and Dr. Yasmin Mawani had identified tris-(1,2-dimetyl-3-oxypyridin-4-one) lanthanum(III) (La(dpp)₃) and bis-[[bis(carboxymethyl)amino] methyl]phosphinate lanthanum(III) (La(XT)) as lead drug candidates, and – after tailoring the synthetic procedures to access large quantities of each – these compounds were tested for their thermodynamic and kinetic interactions with synthetic hydroxyapatite (HAP) by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and solution depletion studies, respectively. The systems were also tested for the first time in vivo (healthy Sprague Dawley rats) by measuring lanthanum biodistribution from single-dose intravenous (IV), acute IV, and short-term IV and oral administration of either compound. Overall, it was found that La(XT) was a more viable candidate than La(dpp)₃, primarily due to higher thermodynamic stability which led to better oral uptake. Four new compounds (H₂dpa, H₃cedpa, H₄pedpa, and H₇alenpa) and three of their lanthanum complexes (all but H₇alenpa) were also synthesized, and tested for ligand binding kinetics with HAP (solution depletion studies), thermodynamic stability of the lanthanum complexes (potentiometric and NMR titrations), and lipophilicity of both the ligands and the metal complexes (partition coefficient measurements). It was found that [La(pedpa)]- exhibited the most favourable overall profile for a potential drug candidate, but requires further testing before in vivo trials. Crystal structures for [La₄(pedpa)₄(H₂O)₂] and [La(dpp)₃(H₂O)₂]·11.75H₂O were also obtained.
Stabilizing the forming process in unipolar resistance switching using an improved compliance current limiter
Creators: name: Lee, S. B.
name: Chang, S. H.
name: Yoo, H. K.
name: Kang, B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The high reset current IR in unipolar resistance switching now poses major obstacles to practical applications in memory devices. In particular, the first IR-value after the forming process is so high that the capacitors sometimes do not exhibit reliable unipolar resistance switching. We found that the compliance current Icomp is a critical parameter for reducing IR-values. We therefore introduced an improved, simple, easy to use Icomp-limiter that stabilizes the forming process by drastically decreasing current overflow, in order to precisely control the Icomp- and subsequent IR-values.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Movie for Fig. 3c and the full list of references for ‘Migration velocity of the main drainage divide of a mountain belt’
Creators: name: He, Chuanqi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Movie for Fig. 3c and the full list of references for ‘Migration velocity of the main drainage divide of a mountain belt’
Additional file 1 of Platelet is the early predictor of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in very premature infants: an observational cohort study
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaoling
name: Ma, Yan
name: Wang, Shenghui
name: Dong, Wenbin
name: Lei, Xiaoping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Table S1 Calculation of cut-off discriminating bronchopulmonary dysplasia status.
Culicoides guttifer var. histrio Johannse, 1946, new variety
Creators: name: Johannse, O. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1946
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ceratopogonidae
Culicoides
Culicoides guttifer

description: 4. Culicoides guttifer deMeijere, var. histrio, new variety (fig. 1, h). Male and female: dark brown, including legs and halteres; immediately above and below the knees slightly paler. The mesonotum cinereous with subshining black markings as follows: a pair of narrow vittae anteriorly (in some cases contiguous) between the sgining humeral pits; a pair of elongate oval spots in the prescutellar depression, a broader pair of elongate lateral vittae behind the humeral pits, a transverse spot covering and in front of the scutellar suture, and a more or less elongate oval area in front of each wing base. These marks resemble somewhat those of C. crepusrnlaris Malloch (1915) but the median lines have parallel sides. The extent of these marks seem subject to some variation and in some cases are more brownish. The hypopygium resembles that of C. copiosits Root and Hoffman (Am. Jour. Hygiene 25: 17, 1937) rather closely, including claspers, aedeagus, and apico-lateral processes of the tergite, but the inner processes (so-called harpes) are less tapering (fig. 1, h) and not so attenuated apically. Wings with about 16 round hyaline areas on a gray background, those at the base of the wing more or less diffuse. The elongate dark stigma! spot covers the distal half of the first and all of the second anterior radial cell. The large hyaline area covering the crossvein encroaches on the basal half of the first radial cell. The venation and the wing markings are like those of C. gitttifer deMeijere as shown by Edwards (Bull. Ent. Res. 13: 169, fig. 2, 1921). Length 1.25 mm., wing, measured from the humeral crossvein, 1 mm. Piti, August to November, Swezey; l,ibugon Farm, July 10, Swezey. Holotype and allotype of this variety in the Cornell University collection; paratypes in the collections of Cornell University and of the Experiment Station, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association.
description: Published as part of Johannse, O. A., 1946, Some New Species Of Nemocerous Diptera From Guam, pp. 187-193 in Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum on page 190, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169292
Device-effekter i web surveys
Creators: name: Lolle, Henrik Lauridsen
name: Clement, Sanne L.
name: Shamshiri-Petersen, Ditte
Publisher: name: Metode & Forskningsdesign
Year: 2020

description: Tiderne, hvor surveys blev besvaret enten ved hjælp af en interviewer eller på papir hjemme ved spisebordet, er under forandring. Fremvæksten af nye webbaserede indsamlingsmetoder og besvarelses-devices betyder, at respondenter i dag kan udfylde surveyen på mange forskellige måder og i mange forskellige kontekster. Hvor det muligvis er positivt for svarprocenten, rejser det imidlertid spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt det er befordrende for respondenternes engagement i besvarelsen og i sidste ende påvirker kvaliteten af data negativt. På baggrund af en repræsentativ befolkningssurvey finder denne artikel dog, at der ikke er forskel på web survey-besvarelser på henholdsvis PC, tablet og smartphone. Når der tages højde for, at nogle grupper foretrækker bestemte devices frem for andre, såkaldte selektionseffekter, så er der ingen forskel på, hvor meget respondenterne engagerer sig, hverken når de selv skal vurdere det, eller når vi måler det som tiden brugt på besvarelsen. Derfor er det anbefalingen til afsendere af web surveys, at de ikke skal afstå fra at udbyde web surveys på forskellige devices. Tværtimod tyder det på, at fordelene ved at tillade mobile besvarelser overstiger ulemperne, hvis blot der tages højde for, at web survey-layoutet er optimeret til det.
description: Metode & Forskningsdesign, Vol. 3 No. 3 (2020): Metode & Forskningsdesign, 2020 nr. 3
Efficient Algorithms for Optimal Control of Quantum Dynamics: The "Krotov'' Method unencumbered
Creators: name: Schirmer, Sophie G
name: de Fouquieres, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Efficient algorithms for the discovery of optimal control designs for coherent control of quantum processes are of fundamental importance. One important class of algorithms are sequential update algorithms generally attributed to Krotov. Although widely and often successfully used, the associated theory is often involved and leaves many crucial questions unanswered, from the monotonicity and convergence of the algorithm to discretization effects, leading to the introduction of ad-hoc penalty terms and suboptimal update schemes detrimental to the performance of the algorithm. We present a general framework for sequential update algorithms including specific prescriptions for efficient update rules with inexpensive dynamic search length control, taking into account discretization effects and eliminating the need for ad-hoc penalty terms. The latter, while necessary to regularize the problem in the limit of infinite time resolution, i.e., the continuum limit, are shown to be undesirable and unnecessary in the practically relevant case of finite time resolution. Numerical examples show that the ideas underlying many of these results extend even beyond what can be rigorously proved.
description: 19 pages, many figures
Stefania Esposito, Figure della corporeità
Creators: name: Fallerini, Paola
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2012

description: Se la grande tradizione classica del romanzo dell’Ottocento conservava in primo piano la figura del narratore esterno con tutto il suo potere creativo, il secolo successivo assiste alla progressiva discesa del narratore tra le trame dell’intreccio, rendendo sempre più labili quei netti confini che si erano stabiliti in tal modo tra autore e personaggio. Esperienze di scritture sensoriali, organiche, psico-fisiche si confrontano ora con la modernità e la post-modernità, dunque con la perdita di sovranità del soggetto sul mondo. L’artificio della mimesi sfuma così nella pura performance e il percorso di autoconsapevolezza identitaria si risolve nel desiderare una esperienza sensoriale che definisca l’inconsistente e vaga essenza dell’essere.
description: Between, Vol 2, N° 3 (2012): Davanti alla legge. Tra letteratura e diritto
HST/COS Spectroscopy of H1504+65
Creators: name: Werner, Klaus
name: Rauch, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new ultraviolet spectra of the peculiar white dwarf (WD) H1504+65, obtained with COS on HST. H1504+65 is the hottest known WD (Teff= 200,000 K) and has an atmosphere mainly composed of C and O, augmented with high amounts of Ne and Mg. This object is unique and the origin of its surface chemistry is completely unclear. We probably see the naked core of either a C--O WD or even a O--Ne--Mg WD. In the latter case, this would be the first direct proof that such WDs can be the outcome of single-star evolution. The new observations were performed to shed light on the origin of this mysterious object.
description: 17th European White Dwarf Workshop, Tuebingen 2010, AIP Conf. Proc. 1273, 58
Film – náš pomocník. České krátké filmy 50. let. Film – Our Helper. Czech Short Films of the 1950s
Creators: name: Owen, Jonathan Lyndon
Publisher: name: Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe
Year: 2017
Subjects: František Vláčil; Miro Bernat; Erna Friesová; Jiří Menzel; J. Trnka; Břetislav Pojar; Czechoslovakia; Czech; short film; public information film; socialism; Stalinism; Zhdanovism; defence; sport; health

description: Jonathan Owen's review of the four-disk DVD collection Film – Our Helper / Film – náš pomocník
description: Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, No 2-3 (2016): Ghetto Films and their Afterlife
Franca Cavagnoli, La voce del testo. L’arte e il mestiere di tradurre
Creators: name: Bibbò, Antonio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2012

description: L’Italia del Novecento, per ragioni culturali e commerciali, è stato un paese tradizionalmente importatore di cultura e perciò non stupisce che molte delle riflessioni a riguardo partano dall’Italia o la tocchino. Ed è infatti qui, in Italia, che si sta assistendo a una crescita vertiginosa di attenzione data al processo traduttivo e ai suoi operai, i traduttori. Il mestiere del traduttore è tra i più difficili perché sempre votato alla sconfitta: nelle parole (tradotte) di Samuel Beckett, un testardo tentativo di "fallire sempre meglio". Franca Cavagnoli è una delle studiose e traduttrici che "falliscono meglio” in Italia. Scrittrice di romanzi suoi e d’altri, prova, con questo testo appena edito da Feltrinelli, a farci entrare nella sua bottega e a guidarci attraverso le varie fasi del processo traduttivo.
description: Between, Vol 2, N° 3 (2012): Davanti alla legge. Tra letteratura e diritto
Cobordism of involutions revisited, revisited
Creators: name: Morava, Jack
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55N22, 55N91

description: This is an old talk about Boardman's work in Z/2-equivariant unoriented cobordism. It appeared long ago, but it discusses a useful geometric interpretation of Tate cohomology which doesn't seem to be widely known. I'm posting it in an attempt to advertise those ideas.
description: From the Y2K Boardman Festschrift; Talk given in Baltimore, MD, 1998
A. Goldoni - A. Mariani - C. Martinez (eds.), Il ritorno di Edgar Allan Poe & Co.
Creators: name: Iacoli, Giulio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2012

description: Diversi sono i motivi di interesse per il volume, frutto dell’incontro fra le prospettive di alcuni specialisti, originatosi in occasione del bicentenario della nascita di Poe. Da un lato, l’opportunità di una riconsiderazione globale dell’opera, nel segno della pluralità di letture – e delle tradizioni interpretative – che si offrono oggi ai lettori; dall’altro, la verifica storico-critica dell’incidenza dello scrittore sui percorsi delle singole culture nazionali. Il ritorno di Edgar Allan Poe & Co. si caratterizza pertanto per la coesistenza, al suo interno, di una modalità eminentemente ricognitiva, la quale procede rintracciando alcuni dei sentieri più significativi della critica, e di un approccio meno descrittivo che induttivo, rivolto a sollevare un luogo, una o più narrazioni, o ancora un nodo concettuale, come specimen dell’attualità e della rilevanza culturale dell’opera poesca.
description: Between, Vol 2, N° 3 (2012): Davanti alla legge. Tra letteratura e diritto
Arsenic Trisulfide Inorganic Photoresist for Three-Dimensional Photolithography
Creators: name: Wong, Sean Hang Edmond
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008

description: The aim of this thesis is to investigate and develop a material that has both a high refractive index and spatially localizable photoluminescence while being processable like a conventional photoresist, so that it can be used with the 3D direct laser writing technique.  The result obtained shows that this has been reduced to practice to enable the creation of 3D photonic crystals with full-photonic bandgaps, and the opportunity to incorporate photoluminescent guests at specific locations.
Relaxation of spherical systems with long-range interactions: a numerical investigation
Creators: name: Di Cintio, P.
name: Ciotti, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process of relaxation of a system of particles interacting with long-range forces is relevant to many areas of Physics. For obvious reasons, in Stellar Dynamics much attention has been paid to the case of 1/r^2 force law. However, recently the interest in alternative gravities emerged, and significant differences with respect to Newtonian gravity have been found in relaxation phenomena. Here we begin to explore this matter further, by using a numerical model of spherical shells interacting with an 1/r^alpha force law obeying the superposition principle. We find that the virialization and phase-mixing times depend on the exponent alpha, with small values of alpha corresponding to longer relaxation times, similarly to what happens when comparing for N-body simulations in classical gravity and in Modified Newtonian Dynamics.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted in the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
E. Biasin - G. Maina - F. Zecca (eds.), Il porno espanso. Dal cinema ai nuovi media
Creators: name: Lino, Mirko
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2012

description: I contributi di studiosi italiani e stranieri che compongono Il porno espanso hanno il merito di ricordare come la pornografia da fenomeno relegato alla semantica dell’osceno si sia emancipata a categoria da considerare «non più come un “problema sociale” (da combattere) ma anche (e soprattutto) come una “pratica culturale” (da comprendere)». La pornografia, utilizzando la terminologia di Linda Williams, fondatrice in ambito accademico dei Porn Studies, dal “fuori scena” (ob/scenity) si ricolloca “dentro la scena” (on/scenity), invadendo tutti gli scenari della cultura contemporanea.
description: Between, Vol 2, N° 3 (2012): Davanti alla legge. Tra letteratura e diritto
Essays in the economics of education : evidence from choice programs in Canada
Creators: name: Shack, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation uses elementary school-choice programs in Canada in order to examine issues relating to the economics of education. Chapter 2 examines the role of parents’ uncertainty and learning in a setting where parents make dynamic education choices for their children and learn over time about unknown, child-specific returns to schooling. Using administrative data from the province of British Columbia and the French Immersion program, I estimate a dynamic model that incorporates imperfect information and parental learning into a school-choice framework. I find that new information parents receive after the initial enrolment decision accounts for a large fraction of program attrition, particularly in earlier grades, and also raises student achievement. In chapter 3, using the same data as in chapter 2, I estimate the causal impact that the French Immersion program has on short and medium-run student outcomes using a control function and instrumental variables approach that exploits variation in the distance to the nearest immersion and non-immersion schools within a given neighbourhood. I find that initial entry into the French Immersion program has large negative and significant effects on student outcomes in grade 4 in each of math, reading and writing. Over time, these effects decline such that by grade 10, I find no effect on English scores, but there remains a negative effect on math scores. Chapter 4 examines how changes in peer composition from school-choice policies impacts students’ own achievement. Using administrative data from the Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia and exploiting the Late French Immersion program, I estimate these peer effects using a two-stage residual inclusion approach along with a school-fixed effects model. I find that as more children leave for the choice program, there is a negative and significant effect on the remaining students; however, this result masks substantial heterogeneity. I find that an increase in the fraction of low performing students to enter the choice program leads to increases in achievement for the remaining students; conversely, I find that high-performing leavers cause large reductions in the achievement of the remaining students.
The role of inter-organizational innovation networks as change drivers in commercialization of disruptive technologies
Creators: name: Csedő, Zoltán
name: Zavarkó, Máté
Publisher: name: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Year: 2020

description: Power-to-gas (P2G) technology is an emerging disruptive solution for renewable electricity integration and energy storage. Two significant challenges of its commercialization are the perceived risks associated to its scalability and the cost-benefit ratio of P2G versus other innovative energy storage technologies. Its emerging regulatory and business environment significantly limit the accuracy of the financial models, as well. In our research we have examined how inter-organizational networks and innovation management could contribute to the commercialization of the technology in spite of the above mentioned challenges. We performed action research between 2016-2019 at Hungarian technology developer startup Power-to-Gas Hungary Kft. Our research results show that dyad-level open innovation led to a significant opportunity to make new steps towards the commercialization of the disruptive technology. Because of the exploitative characteristics of the market environment and emerging regulatory framework we identified significant needs for complementary resources that would drive successful commercialization. We found that inter-organizational P2G innovation networks and their role in shaping further innovation and the establishment of regulatory sandbox models might be essential to overcome barriers of commercialization of this disruptive technology.
description: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, Vol. 28 (2020)
Guido Mazzoni, Teoria del romanzo
Creators: name: Brogi, Daniela
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2012

description: «Nel rumore di tutti il tempo che si perde / per essere solo ciò che siamo adesso, / per diventare solo solitudine». I mondi, libro di poesia pubblicato da Guido Mazzoni nel 2010, si congeda con questi tre versi – tratti da Pure Morning – e con l’indicazione di una durata: 1997-2007. Sono dieci inverni, dunque: per scrivere I mondi; ma sono anche un tempo dentro un altro tempo: quello dei quindici anni (1995-2010) dedicati, come segnala la riga finale, a Teoria del romanzo. Sembra un gioco di date, ma è qualcosa di più, perché sotto sotto vale come invito a riconoscere la skyline – la stessa a cui appartiene anche Sulla poesia moderna (2005). In più, questa linea di orizzonte orienta Teoria del romanzo su due punti di tensione semantica e filosofica: “tempo” e “solitudine”.
description: Between, Vol 2, N° 3 (2012): Davanti alla legge. Tra letteratura e diritto
Theoretische Untersuchung zur Stabilität der Strömung in einem konvergenten Mikrospalt bei Benetzung
Creators: name: Strein, Sabine
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich theoretisch mit einem instabilen Beschichtungsprozess. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt auf eine Keilströmung, die sich zwischen bewegter Wand und der freien Grenzfläche im entnetzenden Fluid einstellt. Ein Satz von Grundgleichungen wird für verschiedene Strömungsformen hergeleitet. Die Grundströmungen werden desweiteren mit einer dreidimensionalen, zeitabhängigen kleinen Störung gestört. Eine Diskussion der Stabilitätsergebnisse findet statt.
Study of grid integrated biomass-based hybrid renewable energy systems for Himalayan terrain
Creators: name: Malik, Prashant
name: Awasthi, Mamta
name: Sinha, Sunanda
Publisher: name: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Year: 2020

description: Unutilized pine needles are not only a significant issue of environmental hazards like recurrent forest fires and green house gas emission but also a wastage of resources. The pine needles can be used efficiently for electricity generation. In the present study, simulation research on a grid-connected, sustainable, biomass based hybrid energy system was conceived to examine the feasibility in the western Himalayan territory, and locally available abundant pine needle is used as biomass resource with solar and wind resources as a fuel. The Hybrid Optimization of Multiple Energy Resources (HOMER) software is used to model three distinct configurations of hybrid systems, PV/BM/Grid, PV/BM/WT/Grid, and only Grid for feeding electricity to selected educational building loads currently run by state grid. The analysis found that PV/BM/Grid has the lowest cost of energy 0.102 $/unit with TNPC $42081 and 83% renewable fraction at 0% capacity shortage. The environmental analysis shows that the proposed system will save around 27815 kg CO2/year (equated to the diesel-only system). The outcomes are found to be very pertinent to policy creators, hybrid system designers, and investors in the field of biomass-based hybrid renewable energy systems.
description: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, Vol. 28 (2020)
Innovating Education for Sustainable Urban Development through Problem Based Learning in Latin America
Creators: name: Coppens, Tom
name: Pineda, Andres Valderrama
name: Henao, Kelly
name: Rybels, Stijn
name: Samoilovich, Daniel
name: De Jonghe, Nina
name: Camacho, Heilyn
Publisher: name: Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education
Year: 2020

description: This article discusses the challenges and opportunities identified in the implementation of the Citylab project in Latin America during the period of 2015-2018. The project was funded by the Erasmus+ Key action 2 programme of the European Union. The project aims to innovate teaching for sustainability in higher education institutions through Problem Based Learning (PBL). Opposed to traditional teaching methods, the pedagogical approach of PBL is a learner-centred approach that takes a complex problem as point of departure instead of existing established knowledge. Since application of such learning methods is limited in Latin America, the Citylab project attempts to introduce PBL in the existing curricula of 12 Latin American universities through the implementation and development of interdisciplinary Citylab modules focusing on sustainable urban development. First, the role of PBL in education for sustainability is discussed in a broader theoretical context. Second, the goals, implementation strategies and results of the Citylab project will be presented. Third, we highlight some critical issues and success factors experienced during the project. The findings of this paper are based on (1) self-reported questionnaires from the partners at the end of 2017; (2) on-site visits by the authors and expert visits; (3) focus groups, interviews and conversations with project leaders of the participating institutions during the project. Depending on the institution, the project results were varying in terms of innovation and upscaling potential. Critical factors were related to the role of the project leader in the organization, the flexibility of the implementation and cultural differences. Internal regulations created both incentives and disincentives for participation. Competitive elements in the project and available resources for equipment can act as stimulators in some cases. The challenge lies moreover in detecting windows of opportunities for change in order to accomplish curriculum reform and by doing so, pursue continuation of the PBL approach after the project’s horizon.
description: Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, Early view
Design of an Incentive-based Demand Side Management Strategy for Stand-Alone Microgrids Planning
Creators: name: Oviedo Cepeda, Juan Carlos
name: Khalatbarisoltani$, Arash
name: Boulon, Loic
name: Osma Pinto, German Alfonso
name: Duarte Gualdron, Cesar Antonio
name: Solano Martinez, Javier Enrique
Publisher: name: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Year: 2020

description: Demand Side Management Strategies (DSMSs) can play a significant role in reducing installation and operational costs, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), and enhance renewable energy utilization in Stand-Alone Microgrids (SAMGs). Despite this, there is a paucity in literature exploring how DSMS affects the planning of SAMGs. This paper presents a methodology to design an incentive-based DSMS and evaluate its impact on the planning phase of a SAMG. The DSMS offers two kinds of incentives, a discount in the flat tariff to increase the electrical energy consumption of the users, and an extra payment added to the fare to penalize it. The design of the methodology integrates the optimal energy dispatch of the energy sources, the tariff design, and its sizing. In this regard, the main contribution of this paper is the design of an incentive-based DSMS using a Disciplined Convex approach, and the evaluation of its potential impacts over the planning of SAMG. The methodology also computes how the profits of the investors are modified when the economic incentives vary. A study case shows that the designed DSMS effectively reduces the size of the energy sources, the LCOE, and the payments of the customers for the purchased energy.
description: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, Vol. 28 (2020)
Susanne Strätling: Die Hand am Werk: Poetik der Poiesis in der russischen Avantgarde.
Creators: name: Kotelevskaia, Vera
Publisher: name: DiGZ. Digitalen Zugang zu Wissen demokratisch gestalten e. V. in cooperation with ZeM
Year: 2019
Subjects: Велимир Хлебников; Всеволод Мейерхольд; Сергей Третьяков; русский авангард; русский формализм; русский конструктивизм; биомеханика; показ/рассказ; гаптическая поэтика; поэтология; карпалистика; жест; рука; интермедиальность

description: Рецензия на книгу Сюзанны Штретлинг Die Hand am Werk: Poetik der Poiesis in der russischen Avantgarde.
description: Кино, медиа и цифровая культура Центральной и Восточной Европы, No 5 (2017): Mise en geste. Studies of Gesture in Cinema and Art
A planning perspective on Hydropower Development in the Indian Himalayan Region
Creators: name: Singh, Manoj Kumar
Publisher: name: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Year: 2020

description: The Indian Power Sector(IPS) is under gradual transition from over-reliant fossil fuel (62%) to Sustainable Energy Source(SES), primarily to achieve targets of SDGs and the Paris Agreement to base 40% of the total power generation capacity on non-fossil fuel resources by 2030. In this context, the solar power generation is on the fast-track whereas, hydropower development is lagging behind due to various reasons causing time and cost escalation, hence the sustainability of IPS in terms of flexibility and reliability in integration with other Renewable Energy Source will remain a challenge. With this concern, the focus of this study is to (i) analyze and prioritize the hydropower potential (HPP) in the Indian Himalayan Region, (ii) identify the prime constraints in the way of hydropower development and (iii) discuss the way-forward for sustainable planning of hydropower development whilst appropriately managing time & cost over-runs including socio-environmental concerns. The methodology involves literature review and analysis of secondary data about IPS, hydropower resources and project-specific risks prevalent in ongoing HEPs in India. The result shows that the Indian Himalayan Region has enough (73%) balance HPP in 12 different States; sustainable harnessing of which requires proper addressing of the prime constraints viz., multiple public consultations in clearance process, litigations, high investment, socio-political and contractual issues, mainly through procedural reforms by the State Governments which have constitutional right over land and water in the federal structure of India. The finding of study will be useful for planning process of entrepreneurs, investors and policy makers in the direction to achieve the target of SES beyond India’s Nationally Determined Contribution.
description: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, Vol. 28 (2020)
Alberto Casadei, Poetiche della creatività
Creators: name: Gallerani, Guido Mattia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2012

description: Accettando storicamente i limiti delle innovazioni che la critica letteraria ha saputo estrarre da teorie innanzitutto “formali”, solidali alla lingua in quanto sistema (dalla semiotica allo strutturalismo), studi come quello di Alberto Casadei (di cui si può citare in aggiunta anche il precedente Poesia ed ispirazione, Sossella, 2009) si pongono l’obiettivo di ridare centralità all’universo creativo proprio di un autore, senza per questo abbandonare lo studio degli aspetti stilistici dell’opera.
description: Between, Vol 2, N° 3 (2012): Davanti alla legge. Tra letteratura e diritto
Krystyna Wanatowiczová: Miloš Havel - český filmový magnát
Creators: name: Batistová, Anna
Publisher: name: Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe
Year: 2016
Subjects: Miloš Havel; Barrandov Studios; Lucernafilm; Czechoslovak film industry; exile; biography; interwar period; Second World War; Nazi occupation

description: Anna Batistová's review of Krystyna Wanatowiczová's monograph Miloš Havel - český filmový magnát
description: Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, No 2-3 (2016): Ghetto Films and their Afterlife
Star formation in galaxy mergers: ISM turbulence, dense gas excess, and scaling relations for disks and starbusts
Creators: name: Bournaud, Frederic
name: Powell, Leila C.
name: Chapon, Damien
name: Teyssier, Romain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy interactions and mergers play a significant, but still debated and poorly understood role in the star formation history of galaxies. Numerical and theoretical models cannot yet explain the main properties of merger-induced starbursts, including their intensity and their spatial extent. Usually, the mechanism invoked in merger-induced starbursts is a global inflow of gas towards the central kpc, resulting in a nuclear starburst. We show here, using high-resolution AMR simulations and comparing to observations of the gas component in mergers, that the triggering of starbursts also results from increased ISM turbulence and velocity dispersions in interacting systems. This forms cold gas that are denser and more massive than in quiescent disk galaxies. The fraction of dense cold gas largely increases, modifying the global density distribution of these systems, and efficient star formation results. Because the starbursting activity is not just from a global compacting of the gas to higher average surface densities, but also from higher turbulence and fragmentation into massive and dense clouds, merging systems can enter a different regime of star formation compared to quiescent disk galaxies. This is in quantitative agreement with recent observations suggesting that disk galaxies and starbursting systems are not the low-activity end and high-activity end of a single regime, but actually follow different scaling relations for their star formation.
description: Invited talk at IAU Symposium 271, proceedings (N. Brummell, A. S. Brun, M. S. Miesch, Y. Ponty Eds.)
Revisão pelos Pares Aberta: A Experiência Pioneira da Revista de Administração Contemporânea-RAC, ABEC Meeting 2021
Creators: name: , Mendes-Da-Silva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Science

description: Revisão pelos Pares Aberta: A Experiência Pioneira da Revista de Administração Contemporânea-RAC
Françoise Lavocat (a cura di) La théorie littéraire des mondes possibles
Creators: name: Furci, Guido
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2012

description: I testi raccolti ed introdotti da Françoise Lavocat nel suo La théorie littéraire des mondes possibile (2010) ambiscono tutti a colmare una lacuna. Quella causata dal cosiddetto tournant cognitiviste, caratterizzato dal consolidarsi di un dialogo fra scienze umane e scienze esatte – nell’intento, certo, di ridurre lo scarto fra ambiti disciplinari distinti, seppur accomunati da uno stesso interesse per il lascito post-strutturalista –, ma anche promotore di una politica editoriale senza precedenti, destinata ad escludere dal canone contemporaneo buona parte di quei contributi, il cui punto di forza non potesse consistere nell’ulteriore avanzamento della rivoluzione epistemologica in corso.
description: Between, Vol 2, N° 3 (2012): Davanti alla legge. Tra letteratura e diritto
Lisa Peschel: Performing Captivity, Performing Escape. Cabarets and Plays from the Terezín / Theresienstadt Ghetto.
Creators: name: Mirbeth, Jonas
Publisher: name: Apparatus. Film, Medien und digitale Kulturen in Mittel- und Osteuropa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Theresienstadt; Terezín; Theater; Theatertexte; Performance; Kabarett; Puppentheater; Widerstand; Ghetto; Nationalsozialismus; Propaganda

description: Jonas Mirbeth's review of Lisa Peschel's monograph Performing Captivity, Performing Escape. Cabarets and Plays from the Terezín / Theresienstadt Ghetto
description: Apparatus. Film, Medien und digitale Kulturen in Mittel- und Osteuropa, No 2-3 (2016): Ghetto Films and their Afterlife
Energy loss by radiation to all orders in 1/N
Creators: name: Fiol, Bartomeu
name: Garolera, Blai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to compute the energy radiated by an infinitely massive half-BPS particle charged under N=4 SU(N) SYM, transforming in the symmetric or antisymmetric representation of the gauge group, and moving in the vacuum, to all orders in 1/N and for large 't Hooft coupling. For the antisymmetric case we consider D5-branes reaching the boundary of AdS_5 at arbitrary timelike trajectories, while for the symmetric case, we consider a D3-brane in AdS_5 that reaches the boundary at a hyperbola. This D3-brane solution is the analytic continuation of the one previously used to compute the expectation value of a circular Wilson loop. We compare our results to the one obtained for the fundamental representation by Mikhailov, obtained by considering a string in AdS_5.
description: 4 pages
Characterizing the temporal development of cardiovascular dysfunction and examining morphology and function of resistance mesenteric vasculature in a T3 experimental spinal cord injury rodent model
Creators: name: Popok, David
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Spinal cord injury (SCI) disrupts autonomic pathways and perturbs cardiovascular homeostasis. High thoracic or cervical SCI may result in a variety of dire cardiovascular consequences such as persistent hypotension, impaired hemodynamic diurnal rhythmicity and autonomic dysreflexia (AD). If left untreated, AD may lead to myocardial infarction, stroke and even death. One of the primary causes underlying impaired arterial blood pressure (ABP) control may be disrupted sympathetic control of the splanchnic resistance circulation. Thus the goal of the thesis is to (1) characterize the temporal development of cardiovascular dysfunction post SCI and (2) to investigate the time course of structural and functional changes in splanchnic resistance vasculature in a T3 SCI experimental rodent model. First, male Wistar rats were implanted with telemetry devices, and subjected to a T3 complete transection surgery. Beat by beat ABP, heart rate and core body temperature was continuously monitored and development of AD was assessed using the in-house AD detection algorithm. Second, primary mesenteric arteries were assessed in our SCI rodent model for structure and function ex-vivo using pressure myography. Vasoconstrictive properties were assessed using α1-adrenoceptor agonists: phenylephrine (PE) and methoxamine (MET). Results suggest that AD is present in acute SCI and there is a significant reduction in AD events between days 6 and 10 post SCI followed by a substantial increase in AD event frequency and severity at day 14 post SCI. Nocturnal dip in blood pressure and core body temperature was absent up to 14 days post SCI and partially restored after 21 days post SCI. There was a significant reduction in PMA wall to lumen ratio in the 1 month-SCI group compared to the 1 week SCI and control group. In addition, there was an increased sensitivity (reduced EC₅₀) to PE in the 1 week SCI group compared to all groups (p<0.05), without significant changes in sensitivity to MET. This is the first study to show that experimental SCI exerts maladaptive hypotrophic remodelling and dysfunction at the level of the splanchnic resistance vasculature, which may underlie the primary cause of chronic ABP dysregulation in SCI individuals.
Synchronized Line-Scan LIDAR/EO Imager for Creating 3D Images of Dynamic Scenes: Prototype II
Creators: name: Anderton, Donald C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: A second prototype integrated lidar/Electro Optical (EO) camera, or 3D Texel™ camera, has been developed by Utah State University (USU) Center for Advanced Imaging Ladar (CAIL) that collocates, both temporally and spatially, a CMOS digital camera readout with a time-of-flight pulsed lidar1. The first prototype uses a flying spot lidar with a double gimbal whereas this prototype uses a single gimbal and rotating mirror. The selection and design of the second prototype hardware components: lidar, EO camera, computer, synchronization box, power source (AC to DC and battery box) and battery charger is discussed and compared with the first prototype. The new software used for scanning and tiling called LDScanner™ and LDImager™, developed in conjunction with RappidMapper Inc., Salt Lake City Utah, is explained. Based on the operator input, LDScanner™ initializes the hardware components, sets them up for scanning, conducts the scan and analyzes the data files. LDImager™ takes the lidar and EO camera files and converts them into image files for 3D viewing. LDImager™ also allows the operator to analyze preprocessed data files from the 3D Texel™ camera and create a histogram of the processed image. The EO requirements to control the region of interest (ROI), set cameraproperties, trigger the camera and set the file format are discussed. Third party toolkits including the EO camera manufacturer’s demo program and Carnegie Melon University’s (CMU) demo program were considered to implement EO requirements. The requirements ended up being implemented using a modified CMU demo program. The software created in the modified CMU demo program and the CMU1394.dll functions were made accessible through calls to the Camera.dll wrapper. The functions exposed through the wrapper were also used to construct a Camera Image dialog box. This dialog box displays the real time EO image and histogram. It also allows the operator to adjust the shutter speed, gain, brightness, white balance and select the scan azimuth extents.
General Relationship Between the Entanglement Spectrum and the Edge State Spectrum of Topological Quantum States
Creators: name: Qi, Xiao-Liang
name: Katsura, Hosho
name: Ludwig, Andreas W. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum states which possess edge states described by a chiral (1+1)-dimensional Conformal Field Theory (CFT), such as e.g. a general quantum Hall state. We demonstrate that for such states the reduced density matrix of a finite spatial region of the gapped topological state is a thermal density matrix of the chiral edge state CFT which would appear at the spatial boundary of that region. We obtain this result by applying a physical instantaneous cut to the gapped system, and by viewing the cutting process as a sudden "quantum quench" into a CFT, using the tools of boundary conformal field theory. We thus provide a demonstration of the observation made by Li and Haldane about the relationship between the entanglement spectrum and the spectrum of a physical edge state.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. A presentation of this work can be found in the following talk at KITP: http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/compqcm10/qi/
Electronics Design of the AGLITE-LIDAR Instrument
Creators: name: Cornelsen, Scott S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: The AGLITE-LIDAR instrument is a three-wavelength lidar system being designed and constructed at the Space Dynamics Laboratory under contract from the Agricultural Research Service. Its purpose is to implement a novel new approach to making measurements of gas and particulate pollutants released into the atmosphere by agricultural operations. Once operational, it will provide a means whereby the total flux of pollutants being emitted by agricultural facilities might be measured. This approach is valid even for facilities that may cover several acres. The design of the AGLITE instrument consists of a myriad of different components that are brought together in a strictly coordinated system. The overall design is broken into three main categories: the mechanical, optical, and electrical designs. The electrical design is equally essential in the operation of the final instrument as the mechanical and optical aspects and is closely intertwined with their workings. The electronics include all of the sensors and detectors, the data acquisition systems, the component control and synchronization circuitry, and the computers and data links. Combined with software, these allow the overall control of the system. This report documents the complete design of the electronics system for the AGLITE instrument from the conceptual layout of the instrument to the final fabrication. It is divided into two main portions. First, the high-level system design covers the scoping of the electronics system and the layout of the system architecture. It explains the major design decisions that were made before arriving at the implementation plan. The second portion of the report covers the detailed design of the electronics proceeding even to the circuit level where appropriate. It fully documents the critical details of the final system.
The USU Tree Inventory Website: A Case Study Of An Interactive Online Woody Plant Education Resource
Creators: name: Harris, Benjamin W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2010

description: The USU tree inventory website is an interactive, online tree education resource that I developed to allow students and community members to locate, identify and learn about trees on the USU campus. Students in two USU courses that teach woody plant material used the website during one semester and were surveyed about their experience. Less than half of the students accessed the website, but those that did found it useful as a supplement to traditional instruction. Most students were likely to recommend the website to another person and to use the website in the future.