cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Domènech i Domènech, Salvador. La guerra amb ulls d’infant: tres diaris i dos centenars d’escrits inèdits. Editorial Gregal, Maçanet de la Selva, 2017
Creators: name: Baró I Queralt, Xavier
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: L’any en què Salvador Domènech publicà l’obra que tenim entre mans s’imprimiren a l’Estat espanyol l’extraordinària quantitat de 87.292 llibres. La xifra, per si sola, provoca vertigen. Aportem aquesta dada perquè estem convençuts que aquest llibre no és un més dels que veieren la llum aquell any. L’aportació del doctor Domènech constitueix una fita en els estudis sobre la memòria de la Guerra Civil Espanyola, especialment des de l’àmbit de la memòria històrica i, més concretament, la reflexió sobre el fenomen, sempre tràgic, de la guerra des de la perspectiva dels ulls més sincers i alhora directes: els infants.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 4 (2020)
La justificación de la violencia en el marxismo-leninismo: de la reflexión teórica a la violencia de estado
Creators: name: Baró I Queralt, Xavier
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Desde sus orígenes, Marx y Engels reflexionaron sobre la legitimidad de la violencia como herramienta para conseguir el poder político. En este artículo estudiaremos la legitimación de la violencia expuesta por Marx y Engels, así como la evolución de esta teoría a partir de las reflexiones de Lenin, Stalin y Mao.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 4 (2020)
Hospitalizations for Uncomplicated Hypertension: An Ambulatory Care Sensitive Condition
Creators: name: Walker, Robin
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Health Care Management
subject: health care quality indicator
subject: ambulatory care sensitive conditions
subject: hypertension
subject: primary care

description: With high-quality community-based primary care, hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) are considered avoidable. ACSC are promising healthcare quality indicators widely used internationally, potentially creating opportunity for health care system quality improvement. The overall aim of this thesis was to explore, assess and evaluate ACSC hospitalization as a healthcare quality indicator for one condition, uncomplicated hypertension. We conducted three studies to achieve the aim. Our first study explored ACSC hospitalization rates for uncomplicated hypertension, taking into account important patient characteristics among hypertensive patients. Using population-based data in four provinces we found that the rate of hospitalizations for uncomplicated hypertension has decreased over time, potentially indicating improvement in community care. We found geographic variations in the rate of hospitalizations, potentially signifying disparity among the provinces and those residing in rural versus urban regions. Our second study examined the association between ACSC hospitalizations for uncomplicated hypertension and previous primary care physician (PCP) utilization. Among this population-based cohort of hypertensive patients we found as the frequency of hypertension-related PCP visits increased the adjusted rate of ACSC hospitalizations also increased, even when stratified by demographic and clinical variables. This suggests that hospitalization for uncomplicated hypertension is not reduced with increasing frequency of PCP visits and may not be an appropriate indicator to measure and evaluate patients’ access to primary care. Our final study tested inter-physician reliability of judgments of avoidable hospitalizations for uncomplicated hypertension derived from medical chart review. We found a low proportion of ACSC hospitalizations were rated as avoidable, with poor agreement between physician raters. These findings point either to a need to abandon the use of the ACSC entirely; or alternatively a need to develop explicit criteria for judging avoidability. This research has provided crucial information for the interpretation of ACSC findings for uncomplicated hypertension. The results indicate that the use of this health quality indicator is questionable and may not provide information that is applicable for interventions to improve quality of primary care. At present, ACSC are most appropriately used as a starting point for assessing potential issues in the community which would then require further, more in-depth analysis.
Necesidades básicas humanas, violencia y perdón: una lectura psicológica
Creators: name: Jiménez Robles, Juan Manuel
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Los seres humanos somos seres relacionales con distintas necesidades básicas individuales y grupales. En nuestro anhelo por satisfacer nuestras necesidades podemos entrar en conflicto con otros seres humanos, especialmente cuando percibimos que estamos compitiendo por recursos aparentemente escasos, lo cual podría impedir nuestro desarrollo personal o grupal. Dicho conflicto puede desencadenar en violencia física o psicológica de distintos niveles, la cual generaría emociones negativas como el resentimiento, el miedo o el odio. Desde la psicología, las víctimas pueden aprender a regular adecuadamente dichas emociones negativas, e incluso a sustituirlas por emociones positivas en relación con sus victimarios, como la compasión o el afecto, siempre y cuando las víctimas deseen perdonar, lo cual sería beneficioso para todas las partes implicadas en el conflicto. Para aprender a perdonar adecuadamente, será de ayuda recurrir a un modelo psicológico prescriptivo del perdón, como el modelo REACH de Everett Wothington. Si las víctimas deciden perdonar, a continuación podrán plantearse una posible reconciliación con sus victimarios, siempre y cuando se haya recuperado la confianza en que el agresor no volverá a agredir a la víctima, y ambas partes deseen reconciliarse.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 4 (2020)
Radiation from a D-dimensional collision of shock waves: a remarkably simple fit formula
Creators: name: Coelho, Flávio S.
name: Herdeiro, Carlos
name: Sampaio, Marco O. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, in arXiv:1105.2298 [hep-th], we have estimated the energy radiated in the head-on collision of two equal D-dimensional Aichelburg-Sexl shock waves, for even D, by solving perturbatively, to first order, the Einstein equations in the future of the collision. Here, we report on the solution for the odd D case. After finding the wave forms, we extract the estimated radiated energy for D=5,7,9 and 11 and unveil a remarkably simple pattern, given the complexity of the framework: (for all D) the estimated fraction of radiated energy matches the analytic expression 1/2-1/D, within the numerical error (less than 0.1%). Both this fit and the apparent horizon bound converge to 1/2 as D goes to infinity.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, Accepted in Physical Review Letters
Nearest Neighbor Distances on a Circle: Multidimensional Case
Creators: name: Bleher, Pavel M.
name: Homma, Youkow
name: Ji, Lyndon L.
name: Roeder, Roland K. W.
name: Shen, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11K60, 81Q50

description: We study the distances, called spacings, between pairs of neighboring energy levels for the quantum harmonic oscillator. Specifically, we consider all energy levels falling between E and E+1, and study how the spacings between these levels change for various choices of E, particularly when E goes to infinity. Primarily, we study the case in which the spring constant is a badly approximable vector. We first give the proof by Boshernitzan-Dyson that the number of distinct spacings has a uniform bound independent of E. Then, if the spring constant has components forming a basis of an algebraic number field, we show that, when normalized up to a unit, the spacings are from a finite set. Moreover, in the specific case that the field has one fundamental unit, the probability distribution of these spacings behaves quasiperiodically in log E. We conclude by studying the spacings in the case that the spring constant is not badly approximable, providing examples for which the number of distinct spacings is unbounded.
description: Version 2 is updated to include more discussion of previous works. 17 pages with five figures. To appear in the Journal of Statistical Physics
Les traces de Renoir dans l’œuvre de Cy Twombly
Creators: name: Mitjans Puebla, Marta
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Cet article porte sur plusieurs arguments de la thèse doctorale La beauté comme moteur de résilience du « métapersonnage » de Renoir : du XIXe au XXIe siècle, par la même autrice de ce travail. Plus particulièrement, cet article aborde l’analyse iconographique de Four seasons (1993) par l’artiste contemporain Edwin Parker « Cy Twombly » (Cy Twombly, 1928 – 2011), à la lumière de deux créations du maître impressionniste Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1845 – 1919). La vague (1879) et Paysage Bords de Seine (1879) sont deux œuvres où Renoir imprime une marque qui capte l’éphémère à travers la couleur, le mouvement de la lumière et le pleinairisme. Four seasons (1993) est une œuvre qui ne peut pas être comprise comme création contemporaine sans étudier l’empreinte de Renoir dans l’abstraction lyrique américaine - un sceau visible dans la technique, l’usage de la couleur, la thématique et le message de la création. Le besoin de saisir l’harmonie dans une création dans laquelle l’image et le texte se mêlent, représente l’évolution de la même œuvre de Renoir dans la contemporanéité: une création où le message unit image et langage. En tant qu’impressionniste, Renoir revendique la beauté. À ses yeux, ce concept rend hommage à l’harmonie du monde : elle devient moteur d’éducation esthétique et émotionnelle. En parallèle, Cy Twombly participe de l’éducation artistique et sentimentale contemporaine : il sublime la beauté prisée par Renoir, sous forme d’art lyrique.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 4 (2020)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) in Relation to Social Skills and Mental Health in Adolescents with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder
Creators: name: Soares, Melissa
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Adolescents, HFASD, social skills, social withdrawal, anxiety, depression

description: The current study investigated the relation between anxiety, depression, social withdrawal and social skills in adolescents with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (HFASD) who completed the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS; Laugeson & Frankel, 2010). Anxiety, depression, and social withdrawal were measured across three time point (pre, post, and follow-up). The results indicated that adolescents did not demonstrate significant improvement in socials skills following the completion of PEERS and at a six-month follow-up. Upon further investigation with a median split analysis, the parent-rated “Low social skills group” approached a statistically significant result and the parent rated “High social skills group” demonstrated a decrease in social skills from T2 to T3. Moreover, median split analysis results revealed that the self-reported “High depression group” had a significant decrease in depression symptoms from T1 to T3. No significant improvements were found on social withdrawal or anxiety.
The High School Learning Leaders' Role Definitions and Enactments
Creators: name: Goodfellow, Shari Lynn
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education--Secondary
subject: Leadership
subject: Principal
subject: Professional Development
subject: learning leader

description: Abstract The purpose of this study was to get a reading on what the current status of the secondary learning leader is in one urban school system, by investigating the learning leaders’ perceptions of the role and their actual experiences, as well as the principals’ views of the role and the school system’s response through Professional Development. Perceived role definitions were obtained from learning leaders and principals through interviews and questionnaires and from the school system through the examination of policy documents and a school board directed professional development program for learning leaders. The first research question, directed at the individual learning leader level, revealed a perceived lack of role definition, or a role ambiguity. In the absence of a clear, agreed-upon definition, both the learning leaders and their principals held very diverse views of the responsibilities and expectations of the role. A working definition was derived, based on the synthesis of the learning leaders’ responses. For the second research question the participating learning leaders provided descriptions of their experiences as learning leaders. The four findings that emerged were: leadership in teaching and learning; building capacity; administrative tasks; and support systems. These findings indicate that the role of the learning leader is complex, multi-faceted, and plagued with role tensions that may cause stress and fatigue. The third research question, directed at level two, investigated the principals’ definitions of the learning leader role. The findings pointed to a diversity of role definitions and role expectations. A concluding synthesis of the principals’ definitions and of role expectations was derived. The final research question investigated how the school district, through its professional development program, impacts the learning leaders’ abilities to carry out their instructional leadership responsibilities. The findings indicate that although both the learning leaders and the principals considered the district’s professional development program to have had a positive impact on their pedagogical and leadership development, the two groups arrived at this conclusion by different means. Keywords: learning leader, secondary school, principal, professional development
Orwell contra el perfeccionisme moral: la polèmica amb els pacifistes
Creators: name: Quintana, Oriol
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Aquest article pretén avaluar tant les raons aportades en contra del pacifisme per George Orwell com la seva solució del dilema moral de la guerra. Està dividit en dues parts principals. A la primera es presenten les acusacions que Orwell va llançar contra els pacifistes del seu temps, i se’n fa la lectura següent: l’acusació principal d’Orwell contra el pacifisme és que es tractava d’un perfeccionisme moral vacu. Per Orwell, era impossible sortir amb les mans netes de qualsevol dilema ètic real. A la segona part s’explica la resposta orwelliana davant la guerra, que va consistir a defensar la lluita violenta; una opció sostinguda per la convicció que és possible estimar i, alhora, voler matar els enemics. S’avalua i s’intenta fer plausible aquesta postura, posant-la en el context de l’humanisme de condició mitjana pròpia de l’autor: ni el bé pur, ni, per tant, els mitjans purs, estan a l’abast de l’home, i la violència com a mitjà impur, entre d’altres, no ha de ser exclosa a priori de la resolució del conflicte. La dignitat humana es pot preservar enmig de la violència a través de la solidaritat i la fraternitat amb l’enemic a qui es mata.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 4 (2020)
Semiclassical methods of deformation quantisation in transport theory
Creators: name: Krivoruchenko, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide an introduction to deformation quantisation and discuss the application of the formalism in solving the evolution problem for many-body systems in terms of semiclassical expansion. In any fixed order of expansion over the Planck's constant, the evolution problem can be reduced to a statistical-mechanics problem of calculating an ensemble of quantum characteristics in the phase space and their Jacobi fields. In comparison with the corresponding rules of classical statistical mechanics, the rules for computing the probabilities and time-dependent averages of observables are modified. The evolution equations represent a finite system of first-order ordinary differential equations for quantum trajectories in the phase space and the associated Jacobi fields. Quantum characteristics allow for the consistent inclusion of specific quantum effects, such as non-localities and coherence, in the description of the propagation of particles in the transport models. Since the late 1980s - early 1990s, when the first transport models were created for modeling heavy-ion collisions, computing power has increased by about five orders of magnitude. This dramatic rise in computing power makes it possible to include Jacobi fields in the collision dynamics, to extend beyond the classical treatment of phase-space trajectories, currently adopted in all of the transport models.
description: 26 pages, PDF. To appear in: Quantum Mechanics, Vol. 3, Ed. M. R. Pahlavani (InTech - Open Access Publisher, Zagreb, 2012)
Functional Genomic Analysis of Novel Cell Cycle Transcription Factors in Schizosaccharomyce Pombe
Creators: name: Wood, Justin
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Physics--Molecular
subject: Transcription Factor
subject: microarray
subject: Fission Yeast

description: The transcriptional-regulatory network in Schizosaccharomyces pombe remains poorly characterized with approximately 10% of transcription factors being well characterized. Attempts to complete the mapping of the transcriptional-regulatory network have been hindered by the observation that almost 90% of transcription factor deletions do not exhibit growth defects in rich media. To circumvent this issue, we have overexpressed six HA-tagged transcription factors (SPAC25B8.19, SPCC1393.08, phx1+, toe2+, toe3+, and toe4+) under the control of the nmt41 promoter. In order to identify the direct targets of these transcription factors, we performed expression microarray profiling, chromatin immunoprecipitation chip, qPCR, phenotypic replication, and genetic rescue on these strains. Gene ontology searching and motif finding to identify functional enrichment and conserved regulatory motifs were also performed. Through these techniques, we were able to describe putative roles for involvement of five transcription factors in the regulation of retrotransposable elements, meiosis, long term survival, septation, nuclear segregation, and cellular proliferation.
The observed properties of dwarf galaxies in and around the Local Group
Creators: name: McConnachie, Alan W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Positional, structural and dynamical parameters for all dwarf galaxies in and around the Local Group are presented, and various aspects of our observational understanding of this volume-limited sample are discussed. Over 100 nearby galaxies that have distance estimates placing them within 3Mpc of the Sun are identified. This distance threshold samples dwarfs in a large range of environments, from the satellite systems of the MW and M31, to the dwarfs in the outer regions of the Local Group, to the numerous isolated galaxies found in its surroundings. It extends to, but does not include, the galaxies associated with the next nearest groups. Our basic knowledge of this important galactic subset and their resolved stellar populations will continue to improve dramatically over the coming years with existing and future observational capabilities, and they will continue to provide the most detailed information available on numerous aspects of dwarf galaxy formation and evolution. Basic observational parameters, such as distances, velocities, magnitudes, mean metallicities, as well as structural and dynamical characteristics, are collated, homogenized (as far as possible), and presented in tables that will be continually updated to provide a convenient and current on-line resource. As well as discussing the provenance of the tabulated values and uncertainties affecting their usage, the membership and spatial extent of the MW and M31 subgroups and the Local Group are explored. The morphological diversity of the entire sample and sub-groups is discussed, and time-scales are derived for the Local Group members in the context of their orbital histories. The scaling relations and mean stellar metallicity trends defined by the dwarfs are presented, and the origin of a possible floor in central surface brightness (and, more speculatively, stellar mean metallicity) at faint magnitudes is considered.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. 115 pages (AJ preprint format), 12 figures, 5 tables. Corrected values in Column 9 of Table 3
Mitjans Puebla, Marta. En un racó de la memòria, Editorial Dux, Barcelona, 2014
Creators: name: Petschen Simón, Loreto
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Marta Mitjans i Puebla nació en Barcelona en 1991. Ya a los diez años comenzó a escribir sus primeros cuentos, estudió Humanidades en la Universitat Pompeu Fabra y se formó en la Escuela de Escritura del Ateneo Barcelonés. Más tarde amplió su formación en La Sorbona de París y realizó una estancia de investigación y formación en la Universidad Saint-Louis de Bruselas. Actualmente está finalizando su tesis doctoral en la Universitat Abat Oliba. Desde su primera novela Un trencaclosques anomenat amor (2012), se ha dado a conocer en el panorama literario catalán como joven promesa, además de haber publicado un par de obras de literatura infantil y juvenil (Petites històries per a grans somiadors, 2016; y una adaptación de Els músics de Bremen, 2016) y Primavera a París (2015).
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 4 (2020)
Bracing for Armageddon: Rethinking the Outbreak of the First World War in Canada
Creators: name: Gallant, David Joseph
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: History--Canadian
subject: Canada, First World War, Newspapers, 1914, Cultural History

description: In the summer of 1914, the great powers of Europe mobilized millions of soldiers for what was universally perceived to be the greatest conflagration in history. Part of a global, transatlantic, continental, and national telegraphic news network, Canadians vigilantly collected and disseminated news from Europe to a news-thirsty and literate rural and urban population. From the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June to the opening battles of July and August 1914, Canadians, citizens of a nation informed, avidly followed and prepared for the long-anticipated “world war” of 1914. In this Golden Age of Newspapers and Telegraphy, with many newspapers offering multiple daily editions of the emerging world conflict, rural, small-town, and urban Canadians exhibited anxiety, fear, patriotism, enthusiasm, dread, and grim determination in the face of an unprecedented conflict. There was no uniform emotional and intellectual response to the outbreak of war in 1914 Canada. Furthermore, although national political leaders such as Sir Robert Borden and Sir Wilfrid Laurier attempted to fashion a national “political truce” in August 1914, the accumulated Conservative and Liberal hatreds of the past echoed in innumerable newspaper articles and editorials, as well as in contemporary diaries and letters. Deluged with information on the gargantuan armies gathering in Europe, buttressed by British Secretary of War Kitchener’s declaration of the likelihood of a three-year struggle, many Canadians anticipated a war of potentially long duration, involving millions of casualties—even though they hoped their boys would be “Back by Christmas.” As the great war of 1914 unfolded on the Continent, Canadians utilized the pillars of western civilization, such as the Bible, Greek mythology, and European history, in order to make sense of the novel conflict. Above all, as a predominantly Christian nation, many Canadians envisioned the war through a religious prism and sensibility, invoking the greatest spectre of Christian eschatology, Armageddon. Armed with information from the international and national news network, in defence of monumental principles such as honour, decency, democracy, and the defence of small nations, Canadians marched to the killing fields of Great War Europe.
Lozano Almazán, Raúl. Historia de Hondón de los Frailes. Recorrido histórico de un municipio, Ajuntament de Fondó dels Frares, El Fondó dels Frares, 2019
Creators: name: Santonja Alarcón, Ramón
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Aquest treball és una síntesi d’història local molt semblant a la que s’ha dut a terme en altres localitats del voltant, com l’Alguenya, Monòver o Novelda, les quals han eixit publicades amb major o menor èxit, limitades, però, a l’àmbit local. És un treball que ha quedat acceptablement bé, malgrat la limitació de pàgines i les complicacions de poder abastar tots els esdeveniments més rellevants del Fondó dels Frares des de la prehistòria fins a l’actualitat. L’obra és la primera publicació de Raúl Lozano, encara que abans havia fet una aportació a la Revista de festes del Fondó dels Frares, com un avançament del llibre que eixiria posteriorment. En el llibre, l’autor ens fa una breu introducció a la denominació “Hondones de los Frailes”, la qual difereix del nom actual de la població “El Fondó dels Frares”, i que fa referència a la documentació conservada del topònim, en relació a la vall del Fondó que era propietat dels frares dominics d’Oriola a l’edat moderna.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 4 (2020)
Jiménez-Yáñez, Ricardo-María: comunicar en la universidad y en la vida profesional. EUNSA, Pamplona, 2020
Creators: name: Messa Gaya, Patricia
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: El autor, el doctor Ricardo-María Jiménez-Yáñez, es licenciado en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Barcelona y doctor en Lingüística por la Universidad de Navarra. Cuenta con más de 30 años de experiencia en las aulas escolares y universitarias, en los que ha investigado y transmitido con pasión el lenguaje como forma eminente de comunicación. En la actualidad, colabora con el grupo de investigación gradUN de la Universidad de Navarra e imparte talleres de lenguaje a juristas. Es profesor de UIC Barcelona y de Viaró Global School. Además, ha sido investigador visitante de la Universidad de Lancaster, la Universidad de Manchester y el University College de Dublín. Desde hace una década, el interés investigador del autor versa sobre la persuasión y la expresión escrita y oral (Jiménez-Yáñez y Zárate, 2013; Jiménez-Yáñez, 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016; Jiménez-Yáñez et alii, 2020).
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 4 (2020)
Magnetic and Superconducting Ordering at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces
Creators: name: Fidkowski, Lukasz
name: Jiang, Hong-Chen
name: Lutchyn, Roman M.
name: Nayak, Chetan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate a model for magnetic and superconducting ordering at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces containing both localized magnetic moments and itinerant electrons. Though these both originate in Ti 3d orbitals, the former may be due to electrons more tightly-bound to the interface while the latter are extended over several layers. Only the latter contribute significantly to metallic conduction and superconductivity. In our model, the interplay between the two types of electrons, which is argued to be ferromagnetic, combined with strong spin-orbit coupling of the itinerant electrons, leads to magnetic ordering. Furthermore, we propose a model for interfacial superconductivity, consisting of random superconducting grains in the bulk STO driven, via coupling to the interface conduction band, towards long-ranged or quasi-long-ranged order. Most interestingly, the magnetic order and strong spin orbit coupling can lead in this manner to unconventional interfacial superconductivity, yielding a possible realization of Majorana physics.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
El paper de les dinasties valencianes en l’economia del segle XVIII: empresaris moderns o especuladors mercantils?
Creators: name: Santonja Alarcón, Ramón
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: L’objectiu d’aquest article és fer una anàlisi de les principals dinasties comercials valencianes durant el segle XVIII per esbrinar si les seues activitats eren pròpies d’empresaris moderns, a diferència dels membres de la burgesia en segles anteriors. També es fa una diferenciació entre la burgesia sedera i la de negocis i els seus màxims representants en dinasties que desenvoluparen les seues tasques. A més, es fa una comparació amb el cas de les manufactures d’Alcoi, on trobem una gran proporció de nobles que s’enriqueixen amb els negocis, i dona una explicació de la formació d’un sistema fabril a finals de la centúria i a principis del segle XIX.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 4 (2020)
La paz como derecho humano
Creators: name: Villán Durán, Carlos
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: La sociedad civil internacional instó en 2010 a la comunidad internacional a trasladar el valor universal de la paz a la categoría jurídica de derecho humano. Durante seis años se desarrollaron en el seno de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas los trabajos de codificación y desarrollo progresivo del derecho humano a la paz. En 2016 la Asamblea General aprobó una Declaración sobre el Derecho a la Paz, que fue rechazada por la sociedad civil porque no reconoció la paz como derecho humano ni sus elementos esenciales, por lo que el proceso de codificación oficial debe continuar.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 4 (2020)
Spatial distribution of cuticular wax compounds and cuticular water barrier properties using Cosmos bipinnatus and Arabidopsis thaliana as models
Creators: name: Buschhaus, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Plant cuticles form an external barrier, primarily blocking water loss into the desiccating atmosphere but also inhibiting UV and pathogen penetration. Cuticles consist of hydrophobic wax – a complex mixture of very-long-chain aliphatics and alicyclics – on top of (epicuticular) and in between (intracuticular) the biopolymer cutin. Absolute and relative wax composition varies between species and organs. Considering the diversity of compounds and barrier functions, the question arises: How does each wax compound shape each function? This dissertation presents advancements using Cosmos bipinnatus and Arabidopsis thaliana in three research areas ranging from localization of compounds at the organ, cellular, and sub-cellular levels, to structural elucidation of novel compounds, and finally to functional characterization. Waxes from C. bipinnatus petals, stems, and leaves were shown to be distinct. Petal wax comprised mainly primary alcohols as well as novel 1,2- and 1,3-diols and ketols. These classes were dominated by C₂₂ and C ₂₄ chain lengths. The water resistances of the adaxial (3.0±0.3 x 10⁴ s/m) and abaxial (1.5±0.2 x 10⁴ s/m) surfaces of these petals were lower than average literature values for leaves but similar to fruit, suggesting that the wax composition on ephemeral organs creates a compromised water barrier. Lateral wax heterogeneity was shown for trichomes, which tended to have longer compound chain lengths and a higher percentage of alkanes, as compared to pavement cells in both leaves and stems of A. thaliana. Moreover, a meta-analysis synthesizing the epicuticular and intracuticular wax compositions of all species investigated to date showed vertical wax heterogeneity. Noticeably, cyclic compounds preferentially accumulated in intracuticular wax. This finding was confirmed by over-expression of AtLUP4 in Arabidopsis, which caused β-amyrin accumulation in the intracuticular but not epicuticular wax layer. The presence of β-amyrin reduced the intracuticular wax-caused water resistance (2.4±0.2 x 10³ s/m) to three-quarters of the control (3.4±0.5 x 10³ s/m) while the epicuticular wax resistance for the over-expressor (6.8±0.6 x 10³ s/m) equaled that of the control (6.6±0.9 x 10³ s/m). An understanding of how wax constituents affect cuticular functions will aid in breeding and designing plants capable of withstanding adverse biotic and abiotic conditions.
Graphene bubbles with controllable curvature
Creators: name: Georgiou, T.
name: Britnell, L.
name: Blake, P.
name: Gorbachev, R. V.
name: Gholinia, A.
name: Geim, A. K.
name: Casiraghi, C.
name: Novoselov, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Raised above the substrate and elastically deformed areas of graphene in the form of bubbles are found on different substrates. They come in a variety of shapes, including those which allow strong modification of the electronic properties of graphene. We show that the shape of the bubble can be controlled by an external electric field. This effect can be used to make graphene-based adaptive focus lenses.
description: v2 minor corrections, 3 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Applied Physics Letters
Development of a Remote Sensing-Based Agriculture Monitoring Drought Index and Its Application Over Semi-Arid Region
Creators: name: Hazaymeh, Khaled
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physical Geography
subject: Remote Sensing
subject: Chemistry--Agricultural
subject: Remote Sensing
subject: Landsat-8
subject: Image Fusion

description: Agricultural drought is a natural disaster that usually occurs when the available water content goes below the optimal needs of the proper growth of plants during its growing season. It has enormous impacts on economic, environmental, and social sectors. In this study, our overall objective was to develop a fully remote sensing-based method for monitoring agricultural drought conditions and evaluate its performance over a semi-arid heterogeneous rainfed agricultural dominant landscape in Jordan. In general, remote sensing data having both high spatial and temporal resolutions would be required for evaluating agricultural drought conditions, as usually agriculture land cover would be relatively heterogeneous and small in size, while drought could occur during critical short time periods i.e., few days or weeks during the growing season. However, due to different technical and cost issues such high spatio-temporal remote sensing data are still unavailable. Thus, we opted to develop a spatio-temporal image-fusion model (STI-FM) to generate synthetic Landsat-8 like data with 30 m spatial and 8 day temporal resolutions upon combining regular Landsat-8 (having 30 m spatial with 16 day temporal resolutions) with moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS)-based 8-day composite data having 250-1000 m spatial resolutions. Then, we used these fused data in developing the agricultural drought monitoring index (ADI) as a combination of three uncorrelated remote sensing-based agricultural drought related variables [i.e., normalized difference water index (NDWI), visible and shortwave drought index (VSDI), and land surface temperature (LST)]. Results showed that the proposed STI-FM was able to produce synthetic Landsat-8 data with strong accuracy (i.e., r2 were in the range 0.71 to 0.90). The evaluation of agricultural drought conditions over the study area using the proposed remote sensing-based agricultural drought index showed high agreements such as 85% overall accuracy and 78% Kappa-values, when compared to ground based 8-day standardised precipitation index (SPI) values. These strong results demonstrated that the proposed methods would be great in monitoring agricultural drought conditions at agricultural field scale (i.e., high spatial resolution) and short time periods (i.e., high temporal resolution).
BCS theory of hadronic matter at high densities
Creators: name: Bohr, Henrik
name: Panda, Prafulla K.
name: Providência, Constança
name: da Providência, João
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equilibrium between the so-called 2SC and CFL phases of strange quark matter at high densities is investigated in the framework of a simple schematic model of the NJL type. Equal densities are assumed for quarks $u,d$ and $s$. The 2SC phase is here described by a color-flavor symmetric state, in which the quark numbers are independent of the color-flavor combination. In the CFL phase the quark numbers depend on the color-flavor combination, that is, the number of quarks associated with the color-flavor combinations $ur,dg,sb$ is different from the number of quarks associated with the color flavor combinations $ug,ub,dr,db,sr,sg$. We find that the 2SC phase is stable for a chemical potential $μ$ below $μ_c=0.505$ GeV, while the CFL phase is stable above, the equilibrium pressure being $P_c=0.003$ GeV$^4$. We have used a 3-momentum regularizing cutoff $Λ=0.8$ GeV, which is somewhat larger than is usual in NJL type models. This should be adequate if the relevant chemical potential does not exceed 0.6 GeV.
description: 6 figures, 13 pages
Parental support, control, and stress: parenting practices and beliefs of parents of children with and without ADHD
Creators: name: Winters, Katherine
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education--Early Childhood
subject: Parenting
subject: ADHD
subject: Parental control
subject: Parenting stress
subject: Parental beliefs

description: The purpose of this study was to examine perceived parenting practices, parenting stress, and parental beliefs in families with and without a child diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This study provides a systemic focus by also investigating demographic characteristics and considering both parents’ and children’s perceptions of parenting behaviours. Twenty-five parents of children (7 to 16 years) diagnosed with ADHD and 19 parents of children with no diagnosis participated. Children from 27 parent-child dyads also participated. Parents of children diagnosed with ADHD reported significantly higher levels of parenting stress and a more external parental locus of control. Parents and children in the comparison group showed greater concordance in perceived parenting behaviours, but the parenting practices of the two groups did not differ. Significant associations were detected between demographics and parenting factors in both groups, yet none overlapped. Results are discussed in terms of the implications for treatments designed to support children with ADHD.
Ground state properties, excitation spectra and phase transitions in the $S=1/2$ and $S=3/2$ bilayer Heisenberg models on the honeycomb Lattice
Creators: name: Oitmaa, J.
name: Singh, R. R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the observation of a disordered spin ground state in the $S=3/2$ material Bi$_3$Mn$_4$O$_{12}$NO$_3$, we study the ground state properties and excitation spectra of the $S=3/2$ (and for comparison $S=1/2$) bilayer Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice, with and without frustrating further neighbor interactions. We use series expansions around the Néel state to calculate properties of the magnetically ordered phase. Furthermore, series expansions in $1/λ=J_1/J_{\perp}$, where $J_1$ is an in-plane exchange constant and $J_\perp$ is the exchange constant between the layers are used to study properties of the spin singlet phase. For the unfrustrated case, our results for the phase transitions are in very good agreement with recent Quantum Monte Carlo studies. We also obtain the excitation spectra in the disordered phase and study the change in the critical $λ$ when frustrating exchange interactions are added to the $S=3/2$ system and find a rapid suppression of the ordered phase with frustration. Implications for the material Bi$_3$Mn$_4$O$_{12}$NO$_3$ are discussed.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 1: of Mobile antibiotic resistome in wastewater treatment plants revealed by Nanopore metagenomic sequencing
Creators: name: Che, You
name: Xia, Yu
name: Liu, Lei
name: Li, An-Dong
name: Yang, Yu
name: Zhang, Tong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Table S1. Summary statistics for reads generated by Nanopore (numbers in bold) and Illumina assemblies. Table S2. Summary of ARGs-carrying contigs after Illumina assembly and long reads generated by Nanopore sequencing. Table S3. Distribution and relative abundance of ARGs only detected by Illumina sequencing, â â â indicates the ARGs type detected in the corresponding samples. Table S4. Genetic location of major ARGs predicted from all Illumina assembled contigs. Table S5 Summary for the near-full-length 16S rRNA sequences reconstructed from mixed influent cultures using EMIRGE. Figure S1. Overview of the reads length (a), reads number (b) and average base call quality score (c) of the eleven Nanopore metagenomics datasets. Figure S2. Correlation analysis of major ARGs abundance (ARGs number per million base pairs) quantified based on Illumina sequencing and Nanopore reads, x-axis and y-axis represents the ARGs number calculated by Illumina and Nanopore datasets respectively. Figure S3. Comparison of phylogenetic taxonomic affiliation at species (a) and family level (b) between Illumina and Nanopore sequencing platforms for the mixed influent multidrug-resistant cultures. (DOCX 1263 kb)
Stream invertebrates in northwest British Columbia : an assessment of the relative importance of forest harvesting and environment factors at local and landscape scales
Creators: name: Bennett, Shauna Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Streams are strongly linked to their terrestrial environments through processes which influence habitat structure and food availability at several, nested scales. While forest practices can affect the hydrological, sedimentation and disturbance regimes, the relationship between community structure and forest practices across broad scales of natural environments is not well understood. In this study, the relative influence of environment and forest harvest attributes on stream community composition was examined in 143 unique 1st to 6th order streams, across a broad geographic scale in northwest B.C. Environment and forest harvest variables explained unique aspects of the community composition using canonical correspondence analysis (CCA), although landscape level environmental variables representing catchment topography and hydrology were selected first using a stepwise procedure. Using partial CCA, 20% of the variation in community structure between sites was explained by environment variables, 12% by forest harvest variables, and 4% was shared between the two sets of variables. The low proportion of shared variance suggested low redundancy between the two sets of variables. Variables describing recent forest harvest (15 years prior to sampling or less) explained unique aspects of the community composition compared to variables describing older forest harvest (more than 15 years prior to sampling), perhaps suggesting partial recovery of the stream community after 15 years. The 143 stream sites were sorted into three LAND USE groups based on the proportion of forest harvest within the catchment basin. Using catchment area as a covariate, relative abundance and rarified taxa richness increased by 30% and 20% respectively, while the proportion of EPT individuals decreased, in catchments with > 15% harvest compared to undisturbed catchments. Distance-based ordination scores (nonmetric multidimensional scaling) changed significantly between the three LAND USE classes of forest harvest on both axes. The effects of forest harvest on streams were confounded with natural environmental gradients. Generally, the catchment basins with >15% harvest were larger, with less topographic relief, more lakes and wetlands, and less rapid drainage characteristics when compared to undisturbed catchments.
Liberalism and Pluralism: Assessing the Affinity
Creators: name: Boutland, Charles David Michael
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Liberalism
subject: Value Pluralism

description: Isaiah Berlin was the first in a now long line of scholars to defend and provide argument for the affinity between two seemingly incompatible views, value pluralism and political liberalism. William Galston and George Crowder offer contemporary versions of the affinity argument, what I call the Berlin project. Critics of the Berlin project, including John Gray, Robert Talisse, and Matthew Moore, argue that the affinity argument is doomed to contradiction, as the incommensurable nature of values under pluralism cannot lend support to any particular value or set of values, including liberal ones. I propose to avoid this problem by distinguishing between two types of moral value, personal and political. Separating personal values from political makes clear important differences in application: Personal values apply to individuals and help to shape the lives we lead, while political values apply to polities and help to shape the societies we live in. I argue that the moral upshot of pluralism is a normative demand for political diversity only, applying at the level of polities not persons. And since political values are not incommensurable with personal values, the contradiction does not arise. I argue such a move avoids central criticisms of the Berlin project and provides proponents a path forward.
Adaptive Tuning of Feedback Gain in Time-Delayed Feedback Control
Creators: name: Lehnert, Judith
name: Hövel, Philipp
name: Flunkert, Valentin
name: Guzenko, Peter Yu.
name: Fradkov, Alexander L.
name: Schöll, Eckehard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that time-delayed feedback control can be improved by adaptively tuning the feedback gain. This adaptive controller is applied to the stabilization of an unstable fixed point and an unstable periodic orbit embedded in a chaotic attractor. The adaptation algorithm is constructed using the speed-gradient method of control theory. Our computer simulations show that the adaptation algorithm can find an appropriate value of the feedback gain for single and multiple delays. Furthermore, we show that our method is robust to noise and different initial conditions.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures