cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nurses' perspectives on working with families in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU)
Creators: name: Butler, Ashleigh
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Family centred care (FCC) is considered a core concept in paediatric nursing. Despite significant research into FCC in a general paediatric environment, limited research has been conducted in a paediatric intensive care (PICU) setting, with no prior research examining nurses' perceptions in a mixed adult/paediatric unit. This study addressed the question "What is it like for registered nurses who work in a mixed adult/paediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to work with families of critically ill children?" A descriptive qualitative design was utilised to explore nurses' perceptions. Ethics approval was gained from both the health facility and Monash University. The study setting was a 26 bed mixed adult/paediatric ICU, with 6 dedicated paediatric beds but no nurses employed exclusively in the PICU. Five registered nurses from the PICU participated in individual semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Member checks, peer review and the development of a reflexive audit trail were utilised to enhance the rigour of the study. Data analysis elicited three interrelated themes - Role delineation and confusion, Information sharing and The PICU environment - and one overarching theme - Competing Values. The findings identified that FCC was not universally espoused as an important philosophy and was not readily translated into the nurses' practices. A theory-practice gap was revealed in relation to the concepts of FCC. The findings suggest that this gap can be addressed through policy, education and practice. Highlighted is the need for FCC education, both for nurses and medical staff, and a written policy to guide staff in their daily practice and facilitate a change in culture towards provision of FCC.
Foreword
Creators: name: Schizer, David M.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Tax Law
Year: 2010

description: I would like to congratulate the editors and staff of the Columbia Journal of Tax Law on their inaugural edition. It is very exciting for me to participate in the birth of a new journal in an area of such importance to financial and economic policy. This inaugural issue makes several important contributions to tax scholarship. Professor Karen Burke’s analysis of carried interest reform examines the technical and policy implications of one of the leading proposals to reshape Subchapter K. Professor Lawrence Zelenak’s essay thoughtfully juxtaposes the increasing complexity of the U.S. tax code with technological advances that have enhanced the computational capabilities of taxpayers. Professor Wei Cui advances the first scholarly treatment of “establishment,” a concept in domestic Chinese tax law of substantial import to the future of foreign portfolio investment in one of the world’s most important emerging markets. We are proud of the new addition to Columbia Law School’s family of scholarly publications. I look forward to future issues of the Columbia Journal of Tax Law and the insights it will contribute to tax law and policy.
description: Columbia Journal of Tax Law, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010)
Two dimensional frustrated magnetic state in superconducting RuSr2Eu1.5Ce0.5Cu2O10 (Ru-1222)
Creators: name: Garcia, S.
name: Ghivelder, L.
name: Felner, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the magnetic state and the role of the crystalline structure in RuSr2Eu1.5Ce0.5Cu2O10 (Ru-1222). Measurements were made in the isomorphic series (Nb1-xRux)Sr2Eu1.5Ce0.5Cu2O10 [(Nb,Ru)-1222], with x between 0 and 1. 3D XY fluctuations above the magnetic transition were not observed in Ru-1222, suggesting a weak inter-plane coupling between the RuO2 layers. The compositional dependence of the magnetic susceptibility shows a rapid broadening with increasing Nb content, explained in terms of a cluster-glass state. The variation of several superconducting parameters as a function of Ru content is linear in the whole concentration range, with no jumps at the critical concentration for which percolation of long range order is expected. 3D Arrhenius and Vogel-Fulcher-type dependencies fail to describe the dynamic properties. Fitting of a generalized Vogel-Fulcher-type dependence, with ln(tau/tau0) = A(T-T0)^-B, yield B = 2.0, in excellent agreement with Monte Carlo simulations for 2D systems. The value deduced for T0 agrees well with the re-opening of hysteresis in the M(H) curves. The observed superconducting and magnetic features are explained in terms of a scenario of 2D magnetic islands at the RuO2 layers, with no long range magnetic order.
description: submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Quantum Neuronal Sensing of Quantum Many-Body States on a 61-Qubit Programmable Superconducting Processor
Creators: name: Gong, Ming
name: Huang, He-Liang
name: Wang, Shiyu
name: Guo, Chu
name: Li, Shaowei
name: Wu, Yulin
name: Zhu, Qingling
name: Zhao, Youwei
name: Guo, Shaojun
name: Qian, Haoran
name: Ye, Yangsen
name: Zha, Chen
name: Chen, Fusheng
name: Ying, Chong
name: Yu, Jiale
name: Fan, Daojin
name: Wu, Dachao
name: Su, Hong
name: Deng, Hui
name: Rong, Hao
name: Zhang, Kaili
name: Cao, Sirui
name: Lin, Jin
name: Xu, Yu
name: Sun, Lihua
name: Guo, Cheng
name: Li, Na
name: Liang, Futian
name: Sakurai, Akitada
name: Nemoto, Kae
name: Munro, W. J.
name: Huo, Yong-Heng
name: Lu, Chao-Yang
name: Peng, Cheng-Zhi
name: Zhu, Xiaobo
name: Pan, Jian-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classifying many-body quantum states with distinct properties and phases of matter is one of the most fundamental tasks in quantum many-body physics. However, due to the exponential complexity that emerges from the enormous numbers of interacting particles, classifying large-scale quantum states has been extremely challenging for classical approaches. Here, we propose a new approach called quantum neuronal sensing. Utilizing a 61 qubit superconducting quantum processor, we show that our scheme can efficiently classify two different types of many-body phenomena: namely the ergodic and localized phases of matter. Our quantum neuronal sensing process allows us to extract the necessary information coming from the statistical characteristics of the eigenspectrum to distinguish these phases of matter by measuring only one qubit. Our work demonstrates the feasibility and scalability of quantum neuronal sensing for near-term quantum processors and opens new avenues for exploring quantum many-body phenomena in larger-scale systems.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures in the main text, and 13 pages, 13 figures, and 1 table in supplementary materials
Introducing the Journal of Clinical Education in Physical Therapy
Creators: name: Wong, Christopher Kevin
name: Timmerberg, Jean Fitzpatrick
Publisher: name: The Journal of Clinical Education in Physical Therapy
Year: 2019

description: With great excitement we welcome you to the new peer-reviewed open access online Journal of Clinical Education in Physical Therapy (JCEPT). As editors, we aim to use our experience in program and clinical education administration and the distinguished JCEPT editorial board to facilitate communication between clinicians and educators and develop educational scholarship among current and future physical therapy faculty.
description: The Journal of Clinical Education in Physical Therapy, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019)
Urheberrecht und Lizenzierung bei Forschungsdaten
Creators: name: Brettschneider, Peter
name: Biernacka, Katarzyna
name: Böker, Elisabeth
name: Danker, Sarah Ann
name: Jacob, Juliane
name: Perry, Anja
name: Wiljes, Cord
name: Wuttke, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Forschungsdaten
Schulung
Online-Workshop
Urheberrecht
Lizenzierung
FDM
Forschungsdatenmanagement
Interaktive Methoden

description: Nicht selten verursacht das Thema rechtliche Aspekte bei Forschungsdaten Schweißausbrüche – sowohl bei den Forschenden als auch bei denen, die es schulen sollen. Zusammen mit bw2FDM möchte die UAG Schulungen/Fortbildungen den Trainer*innen diese Angst nehmen und aufzeigen, wie man das Thema verständlich und interaktiv vermitteln kann. In dem zweistündigen Online-Workshop gibt der Jurist Peter Brettschneider von bw2FDM begleitet von den Kolleg*innen der UAG eine Einführung in das Urheberrecht und stellt verschiedene Lizenzierungsmodelle vor. Anhand mehrerer praktisch orientierten Übungen sowie Fallbeispielbetrachtungen soll das neu gewonnene Wissen verfestigt werden. Zum Ende der Veranstaltung ist ausreichend Zeit für Fragen an die Workshopleitenden geplant. Das Konzept und die zugehörigen Materialien wurden gemeinsam von der UAG Schulungen/Fortbildungen der DINI/nestor-AG Forschungsdaten und Peter Brettschneider vom bw2FDM entwickelt und zusammengestellt. Ziel: Vermittlung von Wissen zum Thema Urheberrecht und Lizenzierung mit interaktiven Lehrmethoden Notwendiges Material: Die Lehreinheit umfasst Präsentationsfolien, ein Lehrdrehbuch mit detailliertem Ablauf des Online-Workshops, die Praxisübung zum Thema Lizenzverträge inklusive Auflösung, sowie die genutzen Fragen für den Slido-Quiz. Weitere Materialien: Darüber hinaus umfasst diese Ressource die Umfrageergebnisse von Mentimeter, sowie die Fragen aus dem Chat angereichert mit Antworten von Peter Brettschneider und Anja Perry Vorkenntnisse: keine Zielgruppe: FDM-Trainer*innen, Data Stewards und Forschende Dauer: Dauer: 120 Minuten (inkl. Pufferzeit)
The experiences of emergency nurses in providing end-of-life care to dying patients in the emergency department
Creators: name: Decker, Kelly Ann
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Managing death in the emergency department (ED) is a challenge. Emergency nurses are expected to provide care to numerous patient groups in an often fast-paced, life-saving environment. The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of emergency nurses in providing end-of-life (EOL) care in the ED. EOL care is the care delivered to a patient during the time directly preceding death. Data were collected from 25 emergency nurses by focus group interview. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using the qualitative techniques of grounded theory. Ten categories emerged from the data that described a social process for managing death in the ED. The categories were linked via the core category labelled 'dying in the ED is not ideal'. Dying in the ED is not ideal described how the ED was an inappropriate place for death to occur. To help manage the influence of the ED environment on EOL care, emergency nurses described a social process that reported strategies that included moving dying patients out of the ED and providing the best EOL care that they could with the facilities that they had. The presence of contextual determinants related to treatment orders, knowing a patient's wishes, and patient circumstances influenced the application of the strategies. However when the strategies failed, the consequences of death in the ED were based on the inability of emergency nurses to provide a dying patient with a 'good' death. The results of this study highlight emergency nurses' belief that the ED is not an appropriate place for death to occur. The perception of the ED as an inappropriate setting for death suggests the lack of fit of EOL care pathways as a solution to meet the EOL care needs of dying patients in the ED.
The geometry of points on quantum projectivizations
Creators: name: Nyman, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14A22

description: Suppose $S$ is an affine, noetherian scheme, $X$ is a separated, noetherian $S$-scheme, $\mathcal{E}$ is a coherent ${\mathcal{O}}_{X}$-bimodule and $\mathcal{I} \subset T(\mathcal{E})$ is a graded ideal. We study the geometry of the functor $Γ_{n}$ of flat families of truncated $\mathcal{B}=T(\mathcal{E})/\mathcal{I}$-point modules of length $n+1$. We then use the results of our study to show that the point modules over $\mathcal{B}$ are parameterized by the closed points of ${\mathbb{P}}_{X^{2}}(\mathcal{E})$. When $X={\mathbb{P}}^{1}$, we construct, for any $\mathcal{B}$-point module, a graded ${\mathcal{O}}_{X}-\mathcal{B}$-bimodule resolution.
description: 25 pages
Outcasts in the Deserts of Hopelessness
Creators: name: Townes, Emilie M.
Publisher: name: Black Theology Papers Project
Year: 2019

description: It was not until Delores Williams’ Sisters in the Wilderness that Black women’s experiences and modes of survival were given theological voice as a companion and/or corrective to the dominant mode of liberation found in Black Theology. This womanist response helped provide a thicker description of Black religious thought and modes of being—female and male. I explore what this expanded discourse has been used in womanist social ethics and ongoing battle that Black folk wage for our humanity.
description: Black Theology Papers Project, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018): Black Theology Papers 2018
GLOSSALGIA - PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
Creators: name: Khabibova, N.N.
name: Olimova, D.V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Glossalgia is a  disease  that consists  in  the appearance  of  pain and a burning sensation of the tongue in the absence of obvious causes   and   other  clinical   manifestations   on  the   mucous membranes.  Sometimes similar  symptoms  spread to  the  lips, palate, or the entire oral mucosa.
Detecting Communities in Complex Networks using an Adaptive Genetic Algorithm and node similarity-based encoding
Creators: name: Hesamipour, Sajjad
name: Balafar, Mohammad Ali
name: Mousazadeh, Saeed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Detecting communities in complex networks can shed light on the essential characteristics and functions of the modeled phenomena. This topic has attracted researchers of various fields from both academia and industry. Among the different methods implemented for community detection, Genetic Algorithms (GA) have become popular recently. Considering the drawbacks of the currently used locus-based and solution-vector-based encodings to represent the individuals, in this paper, we propose (1) a new node similarity-based encoding method to represent a network partition as an individual named MST-based. Then, we propose (2) a new Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for Community Detection, along with (3) a new initial population generation function, and (4) a new adaptive mutation function called sine-based mutation function. Using the proposed method, we combine similarity-based and modularity-optimization-based approaches to find the communities of complex networks in an evolutionary framework. Besides the fact that the proposed representation scheme can avoid meaningless mutations or disconnected communities, we show that the new initial population generation function, and the new adaptive mutation function, can improve the convergence time of the algorithm. Experiments and statistical tests verify the effectiveness of the proposed method compared with several classic and state-of-the-art algorithms.
description: 30 pages, 16 figures, 6 tables
The Christology of the Lynching Tree: Barth’s Crimson Thread, Mamie Till Bradley and the Indictment of White Supremacy
Creators: name: Hill Fletcher, Jeannine
Publisher: name: Black Theology Papers Project
Year: 2019

description: In James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree, the body of Emmett Till stands in a cruciform role; yet it is through the courage of Till’s mother, Mamie, that God’s revelation breaks into the world. Supplementing Cone’s narrative with theologies of trauma and Till’s memoir, new sites of Christic presence come into view. At the heart of this paper, as at the heart of Cone’s Cross and Lynching Tree is the cruciform body of Emmett Till, cradled in the arms of his mother and raised to public witness as she indicted White supremacy in his torture and death. The cross of Emmett Till and The Cross and the Lynching Tree have played transformative roles in insisting that the cross of Christ recreates humanity with the indictment of White supremacy. The impact of Cone’s work on the discipline of Theology, and Theology’s way forward under this indictment close this investigation.
description: Black Theology Papers Project, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018): Black Theology Papers 2018
Datenmanagementpläne effizient erstellen: Methoden, Tools und Vorlagen
Creators: name: Rex, Jessica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Datenmanagementplan
Forschungsdaten
Forschungsdatenmanagement

description: Präsentationsfolien zum Workshop "Datenmanagementpläne effizient erstellen: Methoden, Tools und Vorlagen" im Somersemester 2021 an der Technischen Universität Ilmenau.
Fat Tails and Optimal Liability Driven Portfolios
Creators: name: Rosenzweig, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We look at optimal liability-driven portfolios in a family of fat-tailed and extremal risk measures, especially in the context of pension fund and insurance fixed cashflow liability profiles, but also those arising in derivatives books such as delta one books or options books in the presence of stochastic volatilities. In the extremal limit, we recover a new tail risk measure, Extreme Deviation (XD), an extremal risk measure significantly more sensitive to extremal returns than CVaR. Resulting optimal portfolios optimize the return per unit of XD, with portfolio weights consisting of a liability hedging contribution, and a risk contribution seeking to generate positive risk-adjusted return. The resulting allocations are analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively in a number of different limits.
South Asians in ‘the great outdoors’ : navigating racialized experiences rock climbing in so-called Canada
Creators: name: Ali, Shabana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The underrepresentation of South Asians in climbing (Wigfield, 2021) is a significant indicator of the racial inequity in the sport and culture. This underrepresentation is all the more significant when we consider that South Asians are Canada’s largest visible minority group (Statistics Canada, 2017). While there is a small body of sociocultural scholarship around outdoor rock climbing, there are no studies focused on the experiences of South Asian Canadians specifically, or even racialized climbers more broadly. In response, this study examined the condition of a group of South Asian Canadian climbers, through the design of three data construction methods. These methods include:(1) observations from a day of outdoor rock climbing; (2) an on-site focus group discussion; and (3) an online questionnaire related to a photo creation from the day of outdoor rock climbing. While the focus group prioritized hearing the voices of South Asian climbers affected by the sociocultural conditions of climbing in Canada, the questionnaire focused on understanding the conditions themselves, which are in part created through the attitudes of other climbers. Both data sets were analyzed using a critical race theory lens, to consider how and to what extent the climbers’ racialized identities impacted their climbing experiences. The findings of this study were categorized into three main themes. The first theme looked at the experiences of South Asian climbers more generally, revealing experiences of disconnect and alienation from climbing communities, experiences which were perpetuated by Whiteness. The second theme outlined how the study participants negotiated their racial identities in pervasively White climbing culture, through adopting White supremacist ideologies, forming hybrid identities, and seeking connection and support. The third theme presented the ways in which the racialized bodies of South Asian climbers disrupted current Whitestream climbing culture, such as through creating a desire for solidarity among the marginalized and reinterpreting the ideals of Canadian multiculturalism. Findings from this study suggest that Whiteness must be interrogated, as well as all sites of privilege—such as gender, sexuality, ‘race,’ class and ability—by all climbers, in order to foster culturally safe and relevant climbing experiences for South Asian Canadian climbers.​​
Born-Infeld (BI) for AI: Energy-Conserving Descent (ECD) for Optimization
Creators: name: De Luca, G. Bruno
name: Silverstein, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a novel framework for optimization based on energy-conserving Hamiltonian dynamics in a strongly mixing (chaotic) regime and establish its key properties analytically and numerically. The prototype is a discretization of Born-Infeld dynamics, with a squared relativistic speed limit depending on the objective function. This class of frictionless, energy-conserving optimizers proceeds unobstructed until slowing naturally near the minimal loss, which dominates the phase space volume of the system. Building from studies of chaotic systems such as dynamical billiards, we formulate a specific algorithm with good performance on machine learning and PDE-solving tasks, including generalization. It cannot stop at a high local minimum, an advantage in non-convex loss functions, and proceeds faster than GD+momentum in shallow valleys.
description: ICML 2022. 9 pages + Appendix, 8 figures. Code available at https://github.com/gbdl/BBI
Constructing semi-empirical sunspot models for helioseismology
Creators: name: Cameron, R.
name: Gizon, L.
name: Schunker, H.
name: Pietarila, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One goal of helioseismology is to determine the subsurface structure of sunspots. In order to do so, it is important to understand first the near-surface effects of sunspots on solar waves, which are dominant. Here we construct simplified, cylindrically-symmetric sunspot models, which are designed to capture the magnetic and thermodynamics effects coming from about 500 km below the quiet-Sun $τ_{5000}=1$ level to the lower chromosphere. We use a combination of existing semi-empirical models of sunspot thermodynamic structure (density, temperature, pressure): the umbral model of Maltby et al. (1986) and the penumbral model of Ding and Fang (1989). The OPAL equation of state tables are used to derive the sound speed profile. We smoothly merge the near-surface properties to the quiet-Sun values about 1mm below the surface. The umbral and penumbral radii are free parameters. The magnetic field is added to the thermodynamic structure, without requiring magnetostatic equilibrium. The vertical component of the magnetic field is assumed to have a Gaussian horizontal profile, with a maximum surface field strength fixed by surface observations. The full magnetic field vector is solenoidal and determined by the on-axis vertical field, which, at the surface, is chosen such that the field inclination is 45$^\circ$ at the umbral-penumbral boundary. We construct a particular sunspot model based on SOHO/MDI observations of the sunspot in active region NOAA 9787. The helioseismic signature of the model sunspot is studied using numerical simulations of the propagation of f, p$_1$, and p$_2$ wave packets. These simulations are compared against cross-covariances of the observed wave field. We find that the sunspot model gives a helioseismic signature that is similar to the observations.
description: 18 pages, 9 Figures submitted to Solar Physics
Yang model revisited
Creators: name: Mignemi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A long time ago C.N. Yang proposed a generalization of the Snyder model to the case of a curved background spacetime, based on an algebra isomorphic to $so(1,5)$, which includes as subalgebras both the Snyder and the de Sitter algebras. His proposal can therefore be interpreted as a model of noncommutative curved spacetime, and could be useful for relating physics at very small and very large scales. We review this model and some recent progress concerning its generalizations and its interpretation in the framework of Hopf algebras. We also report some possibilities to relate it to more phenomenological aspects.
description: 9 pages
Offline Algorithms for Several Network Design, Clustering and QoS Optimization Problems
Creators: name: Andreica, Mugurel Ionut
name: Tirsa, Eliana-Dina
name: Costan, Alexandru
name: Tapus, Nicolae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.2; G.2.1; C.2.4

description: In this paper we address several network design, clustering and Quality of Service (QoS) optimization problems and present novel, efficient, offline algorithms which compute optimal or near-optimal solutions. The QoS optimization problems consist of reliability improvement (by computing backup shortest paths) and network link upgrades (in order to reduce the latency on several paths). The network design problems consist of determining small diameter networks, as well as very well connected and regular network topologies. The network clustering problems consider only the restricted model of static and mobile path networks, for which we were able to develop optimal algorithms.
The lived experience of the diabetic patient undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Creators: name: Johnston, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purpose of the study was to reveal the lived experience of the diabetic patient undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. This research was considered important as diabetes is Australia's fastest growing chronic disease (Australian Diabetes Council, 2010) and the number of CABGs patients who have diabetes is increasing (Dinh, et al. 2008). Two male participants were recruited by a Melbourne cardiac surgeon using purposive sampling and were interviewed using an in-depth interviewing technique. A hermeneutic approach, underpinned by Heidegger's philosophy provided the methodology for the study. Thematic analysis was undertaken and four themes were uncovered: scared and surprised, acceptance of chronic illness, acquiesce and being lucky. These findings form several recommendations for nursing practice, including providing CABG surgical patients with individualised care plans for diabetic management, education for diabetic patients on potential complications from the disease, education on CABG surgery, including pain management and providing support for patient's families.
A Gift from Death: Necropolitics and Handing Over in James Cameron’s “A Time of Terror”
Creators: name: Ross-Allam, Jermaine
Publisher: name: Black Theology Papers Project
Year: 2019

description: This paper presents a necropolitical reading of 1930 Marion, Indiana lynching survivor James Cameron’s A Time of Terror that seeks to shed light on the U.S. American legal and extra-legal tradition in which the state hands over African-American men and boys to mobs and vigilantes in partial fulfillment of sovereign citizenship’s ritual demands. In addition to Achille Mbembe’s 2003 article “Necropolitics,” this paper employs Giorgio Agamben’s “Pilate and Jesus,” in an exploration of the political-theological implications of state refusal to uphold the rule of law to secure African-American life against mob and vigilante violence. In particular, I explore the role feigned reluctance plays in the state’s official response to the dictates of lynch mobs as the state complies with mobs’ demand to enjoy free access to the lynching victim’s body. By demonstrating similarities and continuities with the exercise of Lynch-Law in the colonial period and spectacle lynching in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this paper intends to make political and historical sense of the impunity, civic pride, and religious piety with which George Zimmerman reflected on his 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin in order to highlight where further theological and ethical reflection on social and legal traditions are needed.
description: Black Theology Papers Project, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018): Black Theology Papers 2018
Bias-tailored quantum LDPC codes
Creators: name: Roffe, Joschka
name: Cohen, Lawrence Z.
name: Quintavalle, Armanda O.
name: Chandra, Daryus
name: Campbell, Earl T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bias-tailoring allows quantum error correction codes to exploit qubit noise asymmetry. Recently, it was shown that a modified form of the surface code, the XZZX code, exhibits considerably improved performance under biased noise. In this work, we demonstrate that quantum low density parity check codes can be similarly bias-tailored. We introduce a bias-tailored lifted product code construction that provides the framework to expand bias-tailoring methods beyond the family of 2D topological codes. We present examples of bias-tailored lifted product codes based on classical quasi-cyclic codes and numerically assess their performance using a belief propagation plus ordered statistics decoder. Our Monte Carlo simulations, performed under asymmetric noise, show that bias-tailored codes achieve several orders of magnitude improvement in their error suppression relative to depolarising noise.
Development of bioinformatic solution to enhance metabolomics data quality and its application in plant research
Creators: name: Zhang, Zixuan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This thesis delves into the development and application of metabolomics, a discipline focused on the comprehensive study of metabolites within biological systems. The research is segmented into two interconnected parts: methodology development for metabolomics data processing and its subsequent application in plant stress physiology. The first project tackles the challenge of computational variation in untargeted metabolomics, which arises due to the incapability of data processing for complex LC-MS data. An in-depth exploration led to the identification of sources and causes of computational variation, followed by the development of novel methodologies to mitigate these challenges. These methodologies, including data processing parameter optimization and a machine learning program, successfully reduced computational variation, thereby enhancing the quantitative precision of untargeted metabolomics. The second segment of the thesis applies these methodologies to study the salinity stress response in Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Comprehensive analysis of the plant's metabolic alterations, coupled with transcriptomics data, revealed significant pathways and mechanisms of salinity response. The integration of multi-omics data provided a deeper understanding of the complex interplay between genes and metabolites. The research advances the field of metabolomics, providing improved data processing methodology and valuable insights into plant stress physiology. Future work may expand these findings towards personalized medicine, disease diagnosis, and precision treatment.
Evangelist of Incarceration? Billy Graham as Symbol for the Religious Problem of Mass Incarceration
Creators: name: White, Bryson
Publisher: name: Black Theology Papers Project
Year: 2019

description: This paper looks at Billy Graham as a symbol for a platonized Christianity that gives birth to and maintains the social problem of mass incarceration. I suggest Kelly Brown Douglass’s analytic of platonized Christianity provides a way of seeing Billy Graham as a symbol of this religious tradition. I unpack Billy Graham lying in state in a casket built by inmates as an intersectional symbolic representation of a platonized Christianity (Graham), politics (Capital Building), mass incarceration (casket), and the divinization of whiteness (Apotheosis of George Washington on the ceiling of the Rotunda). I draw upon selected sermonic moments of Graham propagating law and order rhetoric as a criticism of the strategy of civil disobedience during the civil rights movement. I argue Graham’s embrace of law and order politics, helped lay the foundation for the social “solution” of mass incarceration, and his lying in state is a symbol of this legacy.
description: Black Theology Papers Project, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018): Black Theology Papers 2018
“Diagnosing an “Unholy Alliance”: The Radical Black Evangelical Critique of White Evangelical Nationalism”
Creators: name: Sharp, Isaac
Publisher: name: Black Theology Papers Project
Year: 2019

description: Largely forgotten by black theology and evangelical studies scholars alike, the “radical black evangelical” movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s was organized primarily as an explicit critique of and alternative to a white evangelical culture shot through with racism. This paper argues that a number of these “new black evangelical” thinkers—figures like Tom Skinner, William Bentley, and William Pannell—not only diagnosed the un-interrogated white cultural assumptions of mainstream U.S. American evangelicalism, they also offered trenchant critiques of white evangelicalism’s entanglement with U.S. American civil religion. Such critiques, I will further suggest, presciently prefigured much of the contemporary “identity crisis” in U.S. American evangelicalism by more than four decades.
description: Black Theology Papers Project, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018): Black Theology Papers 2018
Experiences of undergraduate African health sciences students: a hermeneutic inquiry
Creators: name: Inyama, Davis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study was designed to explore the experiences of African health sciences students who require clinical placement as part of their educational qualification. Efforts have been made to explore the experiences of minority population students in predominantly white learning institutions but no special emphasis has been placed on those of African students, a marginalized population. This study therefore aimed to bring to light the meaning derived from the experiences of African students undertaking clinical placements in predominantly white environments. Interviews adopting an open approach to conversations were conducted with nine African students from three health sciences disciplines between September 2012 and January 2013. The transcripts were analysed using philosophical hermeneutics and shared meanings were arrived at by employing key hermeneutic components as suggested by Has- Georg Gadamer. The existential framework as described by Munhall (2007) was adopted to categorize the experiences under the auspices of lived space, lived body, lived relationships and lived time. Results point to a number of factors in the students' background that have a direct effect on the meaning they derived from their experience of clinical placements. The apparent casual nature of the host culture and perceptions held about Africans are some of the key elements that shaped the experiences of the African students. Insights from this study may have implications for higher education personnel and student affairs professionals, leading to the adoption of policies aimed at improving the overall experiences of African students in the clinical setup and by larger extend those of minority population students in predominantly white environments.
Grooving with people's rage: Public and black theology's attempts at revolutionizing African love
Creators: name: Urbaniak, Jakub
Publisher: name: Black Theology Papers Project
Year: 2019

description: This article offers a comparison between public theology and black theology considered as the two major "players" in the present-day South Africa. Each theological approach is being evaluated in terms of its capacity to embrace a radically prophetic voice, one that could engage the broad public without losing its accountability to those on the underside of history. The main discrepancy between the two approaches lies in the different trajectories of their "revolutionizing effect". Public theology tends to explore the redemptive, unifying and humanizing potential of Christian love, yet fails to thoroughly deconstruct the imperial power structures which are the ultimate cause of the anger of the structurally disenfranchised majority of South African people. Black theology, rooted in a postcolonial rather than postmodern perspective, has the capacity to be vulnerable to the moods of the marginalized and organic with their rage; and yet it lacks coherence and a plan of action. I argue that Christian theology will be poised to play a constructive role in the current social transition in South Africa only insofar as it is capable of revolutionizing people's love while patiently listening to and being shaped by their anger.
description: Black Theology Papers Project, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016): Black Theology Papers 2016
A mathematical model for inter-specific seagrass interactions: reproducing field observations for C. nodosa and C. prolifera
Creators: name: Llabrés, Eva
name: Mayol, Elvira
name: Marbá, Núria
name: Sintes, Tomás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Seagrasses are vital organisms in coastal waters, and the drastic demise of their population in the last decades has worrying implications for marine ecosystems. Spatial models for seagrass meadows provide a mathematical framework to study their dynamical processes and emergent collective behavior. These models are crucial to predict the response of seagrasses to different global warming scenarios, analyze the resilience of existing seagrass distributions, and optimize restoration strategies. In this article, we propose a model that includes interactions among different species based on the clonal growth of seagrasses. We present a theoretical analysis of the model considering the specific case of the seagrass-seaweed interaction between {\it Cymodocea nodosa} and {\it Caulerpa prolifera}. Our simulations successfully reproduce field observations of shoot densities in mixed meadows in the Ebro River Delta in the Mediterranean Sea. Besides, the proposed model allows us to investigate the possible underlying mechanisms that mediate the interaction among the two macrophytes.
description: version accepted in OIKOS
Analysis of Peculiarities of the Stellar Velocity Field in the Solar Neighborhood
Creators: name: Bobylev, V. V.
name: Bajkova, A. T.
name: Myllari, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a new version of the Hipparcos catalogue and an updated Geneva-Copenhagen survey of F and G dwarfs, we analyze the space velocity field of about 17000 single stars in the solar neighborhood. The main known clumps, streams, and branches (Pleiades, Hyades, Sirius, Coma Berenices, Hercules, Wolf 630-alpha Ceti, and Arcturus) have been identified using various approaches. The evolution of the space velocity field for F and G dwarfs has been traced as a function of the stellar age. We have managed to confirm the existence of the recently discovered KFR08 stream. We have found 19 Hipparcos stars, candidates for membership in the KFR08 stream, and obtained an isochrone age estimate for the stream, 13 Gyr. The mean stellar ages of the Wolf 630-alpha Ceti and Hercules streams are shown to be comparable, 4--6 Gyr. No significant differences in the metallicities of stars belonging to these streams have been found. This is an argument for the hypothesis that these streams owe their origin to a common mechanism.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures
A Black Theology of Divine Violence
Creators: name: Matthews, Donald Henry
Publisher: name: Black Theology Papers Project
Year: 2019

description: This paper claims that the black church community had a well-articulated theology which included a prominent place for a Black Theology of Divine Violence. The investigation of the early Black historical narration including the spirituals, abolitionist writings and oral narratives reveal that Black Christians advocated and used violence as a necessary action for the achievement of black liberation. Black Christians did not understand the use of violence as being antithetical to the Theological Ethical norms of Christian Love. They testified, sang and wrote about the presence of the Divine in their violent actions for freedom. This fact has been overshadowed by the nonviolent strategy of Martin L. King, Jr. and the Civil Right movement. The position of this paper is that King’s theology made a virtue out of a necessity. It understands nonviolent theological ethics as a strategy rather than the only ethical response to Black suffering.
description: Black Theology Papers Project, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016): Black Theology Papers 2016
Female Saudi Nursing Students’ Experiences of their Clinical Learning Environment: A mixed methods study
Creators: name: Ebaa Felemban
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Uncategorized
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The quality of clinical experience in a supportive clinical learning environment is a significant matter for nursing education. The quality of clinical learning is often a mirror to the quality of curricula implied in the educational institution. Therefore it is of importance that a continuous assessment of the clinical setting as learning environment is applied. The nursing students’ satisfaction is considered to be a critical factor in such assessment because their feedback will contribute positively in optimising the learning activities within the clinical setting.

 The aim of this research was to explore the quality of clinical education in nursing education in Saudi Arabia by identifying factors within the clinical learning environment which affect students’ outcomes, and measuring nursing students’ experiences and satisfaction with their clinical environment. This study used a mixed methods approach to gather data from nursing students during their undergraduate courses. Altogether, 112 nursing students were asked to complete the Clinical Learning Environment and Nurse Teacher scale (CLE+T) developed by Saarikoski, Isoaho, Warne, and Leino-Kilpi (2008). Furthermore, nine people from the same group participated in semi-structured interviews.

 The initial aim of the research strategy was to seek a detailed understanding from students of their perceptions of the CLE by using a mixed methods approach. Due to limited knowledge on the CLE in Saudi Arabia, it was considered to be an appropriate strategy for providing a holistic understanding of the topic. A number of topics emerged from the data including: cultural issues and struggles; need for guidance; and the clinical learning environment. These issues are important if CLE for nursing students in Saudi Arabia is to improve.
Pregnant women's experiences with maternity caregivers when advised to limit gestational weight gain
Creators: name: Dianat Jahromy, Shida
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The escalating rate of overweight and obesity is a global issue contributing to increasing numbers of overweight and obese women in pregnancy. Obesity in pregnancy increases the risk for adverse complications for both mother and baby. This small qualitative study describes the experiences of pregnant women, who were considered by their maternity care provider to be overweight or obese and the degree to which they felt that they had been treated differently. The study was conducted using a descriptive qualitative method using in-depth interviewing to record participants' experiences. Online anonymous participation via online forum discussions was the main source of participants with only one woman agreeing to a face-to-face interview. Thematic analysis and generic coding processes were employed resulting in four main themes. Findings from this study illustrated the extent to which these women were exposed to stress and anxiety associated with being labelled as being high risk and consequently being treated differently to other healthy pregnant women. Continuity of maternity care was the source of more positive experiences where women felt safe and supported. A one size fits all approach to the use of medical technology in pregnancy and labour should be questioned in light of the experiences reported by the women in this study.
New York Times Upshot/Siena College: October 2018 Virginia 05 Poll
Creators: name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Likelihood of voting in 2018 election (2); Virginia Congressional District 05 (1); Democratic Candidate Leslie Cockburn (1); Republican Candidate Denver Riggleman (1); vote for Democrat/Republican for Congress (1); opinion of various public figures (2); respondent would like Democrats/Republicans to control House of Representatives (1); President Donald Trump job performance (1); political partisanship (1).
Nature of electron Zitterbewegung in crystalline solids
Creators: name: Zawadzki, Wlodek
name: Rusin, Tomasz M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate both classically and quantum mechanically that the Zitterbewegung (ZB, the trembling motion) of electrons in crystalline solids is nothing else, but oscillations of velocity assuring the energy conservation when the electron moves in a periodic potential. This means that the nature of electron ZB in a solid is completely different from that of relativistic electrons in a vacuum, as proposed by Schrodinger. Still, we show that the two-band {\bf k.p} model of electronic band structure, formally similar to the Dirac equation for electrons in a vacuum, gives a very good description of ZB in solids. Our results indicate unambiguously that the trembling motion of electrons in solids should be observable.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
On the linear increase of the flux tube thickness near the deconfinement transition
Creators: name: Allais, A.
name: Caselle, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the flux tube thickness of a generic Lattice Gauge Theory near the deconfining phase transition. It is well known that the effective string model predicts a logarithmic increase of the flux tube thickness as a function of the interquark distance for any confining LGT at zero temperature. It is perhaps less known that this same model predicts a linear increase in the vicinity of the deconfinement transition. We present a precise derivation of this result and compare it with a set of high precision simulations in the case of the 3d gauge Ising model.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures, minor changes. Accepted for publication in JHEP