cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Harrison Ainslie Gunpowder Magazines in Furness
Creators: name: Sandbach, Peter
name: Crocker, Alan
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 15, 244-245
description: In a previous paper the present authors published an account of a gunpowder stock book kept by Harrison Ainslie & Co, one of the iron mining and smelting companies in Furness.1 The gunpowder was manufactured at a mill owned by the company at Melfort, 16km south of Oban in Argyll, and shipped to a magazine on Headin Haw, an island on the foreshore at Barrow (SD 2147 6750). From there it was distributed to Poaka magazine (SD 2434 7758) near the company's haematite mines on Lindal Moor, and to customers, elsewhere. The stock book covers the years from 1871 to 1876 and records the deliveries of 14 types of gunpowder by ship from Melfort to Headin Haw. It also records deliveries from the magazine by ship, cart, van or on foot, together with dates, amounts and types of gunpowder, the names of ships and owners of carts and vans, and the names and locations of customers.
A new class of discontinuous solar wind solutions
Creators: name: Shergelashvili, Bidzina M.
name: Melnik, Velentin N.
name: Dididze, Grigol
name: Fichtner, Horst
name: Brenn, Günter
name: Poedts, Stefaan
name: Foysi, Holger
name: Khodachenko, Maxim L.
name: Zaqarashvili, Teimuraz V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new class of one-dimensional solar wind models is developed within the general polytropic, single-fluid hydrodynamic framework. The particular case of quasi-adiabatic radial expansion with a localized heating source is considered. We consider analytical solutions with continuous Mach number over the entire radial domain while allowing for jumps in the flow velocity, density, and temperature, provided that there exists an external source of energy in the vicinity of the critical point which supports such jumps in physical quantities. This is substantially distinct from both the standard Parker solar wind model and the original nozzle solutions, where such discontinuous solutions are not permissible. We obtain novel sample analytic solutions of the governing equations corresponding to both slow and fast wind.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, MNRAS, Accepted for publication
Home range and habitat use of two sympatric crocodylians (Melanosuchus niger and Caiman yacare) under changing habitat conditions
Creators: name: Quintana, Paola De La
name: Aparicio, James
name: Pacheco, Luis F.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60399 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We used radio-telemetry to record how Caiman yacare (Cy) and Melanosuchus niger (Mn) responded to the intrusion of the Maniqui river into Cedral Lagoon in the Bolivian Amazon. Nine M. niger and 3 C. yacare were followed between December 2015 and May 2016. Both species showed a gradual reduction in mean monthly range from December (19.96 ha Mn and 1.74 ha Cy) to May 2016 (0.08 ha Mn and 0.24 ha Cy). Habitat use was fairly constant throughout the months for both species, Melanosuchus niger used mainly open swampy forests and Cyperaceae Marshes, while C. yacare used more islands and flooded grasslands. This study shows that both species of caimans responded to changes in depth and vegetation types, as their habitat as a whole was changed by river intrusion.
Kirks-head, Kirkstead and the Temple of Diana: the naming of archaeological sites in Levens Park
Creators: name: Hodkinson, Ian D
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 15, 246-249
description: This note attempts to resolve apparent contradictions and discrepancies in the naming of archaeological sites on the true left bank of the River Kent at the northern end of Levens Park, Cumbria.
Flows and joins of metric spaces
Creators: name: Mineyev, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 20F67, 37D40, 51F99, 57Q05, 57M07, 57N16, 57Q91, 05C25

description: We introduce the functor * which assigns to every metric space X its symmetric join *X. As a set, *X is a union of intervals connecting ordered pairs of points in X. Topologically, *X is a natural quotient of the usual join of X with itself. We define an Isom(X)-invariant metric d* on *X. Classical concepts known for H^n and negatively curved manifolds are defined in a precise way for any hyperbolic complex X, for example for a Cayley graph of a Gromov hyperbolic group. We define a double difference, a cross-ratio and horofunctions in the compactification X-bar= X union bdry X. They are continuous, Isom(X)-invariant, and satisfy sharp identities. We characterize the translation length of a hyperbolic isometry g in Isom(X). For any hyperbolic complex X, the symmetric join *X-bar of X-bar and the (generalized) metric d* on it are defined. The geodesic flow space F(X) arises as a part of *X-bar. (F(X),d*) is an analogue of (the total space of) the unit tangent bundle on a simply connected negatively curved manifold. This flow space is defined for any hyperbolic complex X and has sharp properties. We also give a construction of the asymmetric join X*Y of two metric spaces. These concepts are canonical, i.e. functorial in X, and involve no `quasi'-language. Applications and relation to the Borel conjecture and others are discussed.
description: Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol9/paper13.abs.html
Household Level Financial Incentives to Adoption of Conservation Agricultural Technologies in Africa
Creators: name: Haggblade, Steven
name: Tembo, Gelson
name: Donovan, Cynthia
name: Haggblade, Steven
name: Tembo, Gelson
name: Donovan, Cynthia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: conservation
subject: sustainable agriculture

description: Although several studies have been conducted to determine the viability of conservation agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, almost all such studies are fragmented – often country specific – and with undue emphasis on output effects. However, assessment of the attractiveness of these technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa requires a detailed case-by-case comparison of changes in output and input costs and benefits. This paper reviews a set of responses known collectively as “conservation” or “sustainable” agriculture. Though definitions vary, these technologies typically involve agricultural management practices that prevent degradation of soil and water resources and thereby permit sustainable farm productivity without environmental degradation.
The Tisdall Cross, Armathwaite, Cumbria
Creators: name: Bundock, Edward
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 15, 250-254
description: The altar cross is important for a number of reasons. First, it is unique in Nicholson's repertoire and is further evidence of his skill and versatility in design. Second it is symbolic of the desire to give beautiful things for the use of worship. Of the many things Nicholson designed in 56 years of practice the cross at Armathwaite is outstanding.
Cotton in Zambia: An Assessment of its Organization, Performance, Current Policy Initiatives, and Challenges for the Future
Creators: name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Zulu, Ballard
name: Shaffer, James D.
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Zulu, Ballard
name: Shaffer, James D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Zambia
subject: cotton
subject: smallholder livelihood

description: This paper grows out of earlier work on cotton by the Food Security Research Project. It is directed towards policy makers and private stakeholders in Zambia’s cotton sector, and has four main purposes: (a) To provide a detailed descriptive overview of the organization of the sector and of the behavior of key public and private participants in the sector; (b) To assess cotton’s role in smallholder livelihood strategies, and its competitiveness at the farm level with a key alternative crop–maize; (c) To critically evaluate recent policy initiatives in the sector and suggest key modifications that might be needed; and (d) To identify the primary challenges that the sector faces to ensure its future competitiveness in regional and international markets.
Temperature overshoot as the cause of physical changes in resistive switching devices during electro-formation
Creators: name: Meng, Jingjia
name: Zhao, Bingyuan
name: Goodwill, Jonathan M.
name: Bain, James A.
name: Skowronski, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resistive switching devices based on transition metal oxides require formation of a conductive filament in order for the device to be able to switch. Such filaments have been proposed to form by the reduction of the oxide due to application of the electric field, but this report seeks to rebut that interpretation. Frequently reported physical changes during electro-formation include delamination of electrodes, crystallization of functional oxide, intermixing of electrode and oxide materials, and extensive loss of oxygen presumably to the ambient. Here we show that most of these effects are not inherent to the formation and switching processes and instead are due to an experimental artifact: the discharge of parasitic capacitances in the forming circuit. Discharge of typical BNC cables can raise the temperature of the filament to between 2,000 and 5,000 K resulting in extensive physical changes. Discharge and associated effects mentioned above can be eliminated using an on-chip load element without affecting the ability to switch.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures
FreeWillpdf.pdf
Creators: name: Васил Пенчев
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 220319 Social Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220206 History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science)

description: If the concept of “free will” is reduced to that of “choice” all physical world shares the latter quality. Anyway the “free will” can be distinguished from the “choice”: The “free will” involves implicitly a certain goal, and the choice is only the mean, by which the aim can be achieved or not by the onewho determines the target. Thus, for example, an electron has always a choice but not free will unlike a human possessing both. Consequently, and paradoxically, the determinism of classical physics is more subjectiveand more anthropomorphic than the indeterminism of quantum mechanics for the former presupposes certain deterministic goal implicitly following the model of human freewill behavior. Quantum mechanics introduces thechoice in the fundament of physical world involving a generalized case of choice, which can be called “subjectless”: There is certain choice, whichoriginates from the transition of the future into the past. Thus that kind of choice is shared of all existing and does not need any subject: It can be considered as a low of nature. There are a few theorems in quantum mechanics directly relevant to the topic: two of them are called “free willtheorems” by their authors (Conway and Kochen 2006; 2009). Any quantum system either a human or an electron or whatever else has always a choice: Its behavior is not predetermined by its past. This is a physical law. It impliesthat a form of information, the quantum information underlies all existing for the unit of the quantity of information is an elementary choice: either a bit or a quantum bit (qubit).
Supplemental Material for: Judgment on the evolution state of asymmetric games
Creators: name: Song, Sha
name: Pan, Qiuhui
name: He, Mingfeng
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 10109 Ordinary Differential Equations, Difference Equations and Dynamical Systems
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 10110 Partial Differential Equations
subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: 10302 Numerical Solution of Differential and Integral Equations

description: The file includes the derivation process of formulas, proofs, figures, etc.
KLARsaurus - Wörterbuch für allgemeinverständliche Übersetzungen und Erklärungen psychologischer Fachbegriffe
Creators: name: ZPID
Publisher: name: KLARpsy
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 150

description: Der KLARsaurus enthält allgemeinverständliche Übersetzungen und Erklärungen psychologischer Fachbegriffe zum Nachschlagen und Anwenden für alle Interessierten. Er wird von Mitarbeitenden des Leibniz-Instituts für Psychologie im Rahmen des Angebots KLARpsy erstellt und durch Beiträge aus der Community ergänzt. Dies ist der Stand vom 15.01.2025. Eine vollständige, aktuelle Version findet sich auf https://klarpsy.de/klarsaurus/.
description: Die ZIP-Datei enthält eine Sammlung aller zum 15.01.2025 vorhandenen KLARsaurus-Begriffe im .yaml-Dateiformat.
'Once a German always a German': Attitudes to people of German and Austrian extraction in Cumbria during the First World War
Creators: name: David, Rob
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 16, 73-93
description: The history of enemy aliens has been studied at a national level based largely on government documents, but few regional studies have been written which might test the appropriateness of the national picture when applied locally. This article examines the fate of German and Austrian-born nationals who had become naturalised British citizens as well as German nationals living and working in Cumbria between 1914 and 1919. It reveals that officialdom applied the rules against enemy aliens as rigorously in Cumbria as elsewhere, and that anti-German sentiment was strong in both the larger urban centres, smaller towns and rural communities of the county. A fear of fifth columnists, spies and saboteurs existed in Cumbria, and even naturalised British citizens had to take the precaution of publicly declaring their loyalty to Britain and occasionally anglicising their names in order not to draw attention to themselves. It was not an easy time to be a German or Austrian family living in Cumbria.
Mirror symmetry for topological sigma models with generalized Kahler geometry
Creators: name: Chiantese, Stefano
name: Gmeiner, Florian
name: Jeschek, Claus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider topological sigma models with generalized Kahler target spaces. The mirror map is constructed explicitly for a special class of target spaces and the topological A and B model are shown to be mirror pairs in the sense that the observables, the instantons and the anomalies are mapped to each other. We also apply the construction to open topological models and show that A branes are mapped to B branes. Furthermore, we demonstrate a relation between the field strength on the brane and a two-vector on the mirror manifold.
description: 17 pages; v2: typos corrected, minor changes in chapter 5
Designing Laboratories for Online Instruction using the iOLab Device
Creators: name: Leblond, Louis
name: Hicks, Melissa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scientific laboratories are among the most challenging course components to integrate into online instruction. Available technology restricts the design and nature of experiments and it can be hard to replicate the collaborative lab environment where frequent and immediate instructor feedback is the norm. Here we report on technological and pedagogical aspects of newly developed labs for online courses using the Interactive Online Lab (iOLab) device. We argue that this technology, coupled with an online course design emphasizing teamwork, targeted feedbacks, and self-regulation skills, provides a robust framework for students to do reliable, engaging, inquiry-based and hands-on labs outside the classroom. After describing the implementation and technology, we explain our lab objectives and how the labs were integrated into two introductory physics courses. We conclude with an example lab on kinematics.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, accepted to The Physics Teacher, v2: updated contact information, v3: added references
Recommendations on Sample Design for Post-Harvest Surveys in Zambia Based on the 2000 Census
Creators: name: Megill, David J.
name: Megill, David J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Zambia post-harvest survey

description: The Central Statistical Office (CSO) has been conducting the annual Zambia Post-Harvest Survey (PHS) for many years. The current sampling frame for this survey is based on the census supervisory areas (CSAs) and standard enumeration areas (SEAs) defined for the 1990 Zambia Census of Population and Housing. A new listing of households is conducted in the sample SEAs each year for selecting the sample households. Although this is still a representative sample of households, changes in the population distribution during the past decade have made the 1990 sampling frame for the PHS less efficient. Now that the data from the 2000 Zambia Census of Population and Housing are available, it is possible to develop a more effective sampling frame for the PHS. The 2000 census questionnaire included a question on whether the household engaged in the agricultural activities (crop growing, livestock and poultry raising, and fish farming), as well as check items to identify the specific crops grown and animals raised by the household. The purpose of this report is to make recommendations on the new sample design for the PHS based on the 2000 Zambia Census of Population and Housing sampling frame.
Canon Simpson's War: the Rector of Caldbeck and his Community, 1914-1918
Creators: name: Platt, Jane
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 16, 95-109
description: This chapter seeks to do three things: it introduces an historical source which is oftenoverlooked; it illuminates a Cumbrian parish's experience of the Great War; and it seeksto set this experience within the wider background of the country's relationship with theChurch of England. It explores the reactions of Cumbrian clergy, both to the outbreakof war, and to Archbishop of Canterbury, Randall Davidson's, 'National Mission ofRepentance and Hope' (1916), as seen in the parish magazines of Keswick and, moreextensively, of Caldbeck. The vicar of St John's, Keswick, was an enthusiastic supporterof the National Mission, while Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley encouraged men to enlistby emphasising notions of chivalry. At Caldbeck, however, Canon Simpson eschewedthe rhetoric of both chivalry and the National Mission in favour of practical help for hisparishioners. Alongside his leadership of Caldbeck's war effort, he bound the parish toits combatants by using his parish magazine to follow the progress of Caldbeck recruitsat the Front.
The Economics of Smallholder Households in Tobacco and Cotton Growing Areas of the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique
Creators: name: Benfica, Rui M.S.
name: Zandamela, Julieta
name: Miguel, Arlindo
name: De Sousa, Natercia
name: Benfica, Rui M.S.
name: Zandamela, Julieta
name: Miguel, Arlindo
name: De Sousa, Natercia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: tobacco
subject: cotton
subject: household
subject: Zambezi Valley
subject: Mozambique

description: This paper is the first output generated with the data collected in that survey. It is a descriptive piece that focuses on identifying and presenting a snapshot of the rural economy in the Zambezi Valley cash cropping economies. It makes it by presenting key statistics on selected representative characteristics of rural households in both cotton and tobacco growing areas. For each of those areas, the tabular and graphical results are broken down into growers versus nongrowers of those key cash crops. Although not analytical, the paper sheds light in a number of issues of concern in cash cropping economies in the region.
description: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique
Intrinsically Activated SrTiO3: Photocatalytic H2 Evolution from Neutral Aqueous Methanol Solution in the Absence of Any Noble Metal Cocatalyst
Creators: name: Zhou, Xuemei
name: Liu, Ning
name: Yokosawa, Tadahiro
name: Osvet, Andres
name: Miehlich, Matthias E.
name: Meyer, Karsten
name: Spiecker, Erdmann
name: Schmuki, Patrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Noble metal cocatalysts are conventionally a crucial factor in oxide-semiconductor-based photocatalytic hydrogen generation. In the present work, we show that optimized high-temperature hydrogenation of commercially available strontium titanate (SrTiO3) powder can be used to engineer an intrinsic cocatalytic shell around nanoparticles that can create a photocatalyst that is highly effective without the use of any additional cocatalyst for hydrogen generation from neutral aqueous methanol solutions. This intrinsic activation effect can also be observed for SrTiO3[100] single crystal as well as Nb-doped SrTiO3 (100) single crystal. For all types of SrTiO3 samples (nanopowders and either of the single crystals), hydrogenation under optimum conditions leads to a surface-hydroxylated layer together with lattice defects visible by transmission electron microscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and photoluminescence (PL). Active samples provide states in a defective matrix -- this is in contrast to the inactive defects formed in other reductive atmospheres. In aqueous media, active SrTiO3 samples show a significant negative shift of the flatband potential (in photoelectrochemical as well as in capacitance data) and a lower charge-transfer resistance for photoexcited electrons. We therefore ascribe the remarkable cocatalyst-free activation of the material to a synergy between thermodynamics (altered interface energetics induced by hydroxylation) and kinetics (charge transfer mediation by suitable Ti3+ states).
Toward Improved Maize Marketing and Trade Policies to Promote Household Food Security in Central and Southern Mozambique
Creators: name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Abdula, Danilo Carimo
name: Weber, Michael T.
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Abdula, Danilo Carimo
name: Weber, Michael T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: maize
subject: marketing
subject: trade
subject: Mozambique
subject: household

description: In this paper we examine this challenge through the lens of the country’s primary staple, maize. We choose maize among the country’s several staple foods (including cassava, rice, and wheat products) for a combination of reasons. First, it is the most widely produced staple in the country. In no province do fewer than two-thirds of rural households produce maize; rice’s participation, in contrast, falls below 10% in four provinces, and wheat is not produced locally at all. Second, maize is the most widely sold staple in the country: cassava rivals maize in breadth and level of production, but three times more households sell maize than sell cassava. Third, maize is the only staple food in Mozambique which is regularly exported, generating substantial income for smallholder farmers in the Center and North of the country. Finally, maize is the most widely consumed staple across the country, occupying as much of the average budget share in 2002 as high as rice, cassava, wheat, sorghum, and millet combined.
description: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique
Changes in Rural Household Income Patterns in Mozambique, 1996-2002, and Implications for Agriculture’s Contribution to Poverty Reduction.
Creators: name: Boughton, Duncan
name: Mather, David
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Walker, Thomas S.
name: Cunguara, Benedito
name: Payongayong, Ellen M.
name: Boughton, Duncan
name: Mather, David
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Walker, Thomas S.
name: Cunguara, Benedito
name: Payongayong, Ellen M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique
subject: household
subject: income
subject: poverty

description: The challenge that faces Mozambique’s government is to design poverty reduction and rural development strategies that deliver three-dimensional growth: rapid growth to reduce poverty incidence quickly, sustainable growth to ensure that people permanently escape poverty, and broad-based growth to ensure that as many families as possible benefit from it. The specific objectives of this paper are: 1. To compare the level, sources, and distribution of rural household incomes in 1995-96 and 2001-02. To achieve this objective, the paper answers questions such as how have rural incomes changed over the six year period; how much have the poorest of the poor benefited; and have rural incomes grown evenly over the whole country or have some areas grown faster than others? 2. To compare the level and composition of agricultural income in 1995-96 and 2001-02. The paper considers the importance of agriculture relative to non-farm activities as a source of rural income, and the mix of agricultural activities, for different income groups. 3. To identify priorities for enhancing agriculture’s contribution to rural economic growth and poverty reduction in the medium term.
description: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique
Archives of potential: researching fanfiction as contemporary digital literature
Creators: name: Symons, Tedi Marie
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470508
subject: Digital literature

description: As a unique form of contemporary digital literature, fanfiction’s significance is epitomised by its propensity for multifocal interpretation. This thesis utilises literary, fan fiction, and monster studies approaches in a case study analysis of a representative fanfiction: Azriel Green’s You’re Divine (written under the pseudonym ‘Oonionchiver’). You’re Divine was selected as a complex work that engages with multiple modes of meaning-making within and outside the narrative. The case study demonstrates how fanfiction forms meaning through subverting societal norms while deviating from traditional literary perspectives, with a particular focus on the monstrous and community as creating queer space. Literary significance is uncovered in this thesis through critical analysis of the form, content, and communicative space of You’re Divine, filling research gaps in scholarship on fanfiction’s thematic groups by applying a text-focused approach.
Fanfiction production has been predominately investigated through ethnographic frameworks inspired by media and cultural studies, originally focusing on feminism and resistance. Research has branched out to include literary analysis, particularly in scholarship challenging notions of authorship and investigating specific categories of fan-writing. The academic avenues of fan fiction studies influential to my research are detailed in the literature review alongside relevant theories of literary criticism and monster studies, thus locating my thesis as it responds to existing scholarship. The textual analysis investigates significance formed within You’re Divine’s structural play, the depth of its characters and their development, the quarrel between multifaceted narratives of monstrosity and morality, and the creation of queer space in the text and through it via paratextual communication. By identifying the textual complexity of You’re Divine as open to multiple analytical perspectives, this case study is indicative of the potential for further multifocal research into fanfiction as a significant form of contemporary digital literature unlimited by traditional conventions of genre or structure.
Is it design or is it inquiry? : exploring technology research in a Filipino school setting
Creators: name: Yazon, Jessamyn Marie Olivares
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: My case study explored Filipino secondary students' and teachers' experiences with technology research, project-based pedagogy. The study was conducted to examine the nature of a Technology Research (TR) Curriculum, and how it mediates non-Western students' learning, and interest in technology-based careers. The context for my study is Philippine Science High School's (PSHS) TR program wherein students outline a proposal, design an experiment or a device, and implement their design to address a real world problem. My data sources included semi-structured interviews of 27 students and 2 teachers; participant observations of classroom and group activities, teacher-student consultations, and Science-Technology Fair presentations; TR curriculum documents; and researcher journal logs. My examination of curriculum documents revealed that since the 1960s, the Philippine government has implemented specialized educational programs, such as the PSHS Science/Technology Streaming and TR programs, to support Filipino youth interested in science and technology courses and careers. Data analyses showed that the TR program provided a rich, practical learning environment where 'doing technology design' blended with 'doing science inquiry'. The TR activities enhanced student understanding of science and technology; helped them integrate and apply knowledge and skills learned from other school subjects; encouraged them to be creative, problem-solvers; and helped develop their lifelong learning skills. Students recognized that TR teachers adopted alternative instructional strategies that prompted students to adopt more active roles in their learning. Research findings revealed that student interest in pursuing technology-related careers was supported by their participation in the streaming and the TR programs. Data also showed that Filipino cultural practices mediated student learning, and career decision-making. My research findings suggest that present notions of scientific inquiry, and technological design need to be re-examined; that integrated science-technology school programs must be implemented to enhance students' academic and vocational knowledge and skills; and that career direction interventions should address personal and socio-cultural factors other than student interest and aptitude. My study provides strong evidence that technology research pedagogy can change teaching-learning approaches in a Filipino classroom. This study showed that academic-vocational, technology-enriched science curriculum could be effectively designed to help equip students to become critical thinkers and leaders in the 21st century.
Theoretical studies of the phase transition in the anisotropic 2-D square spin lattice
Creators: name: Hajj, Mohamad Al
name: Guihery, Nathalie
name: Malrieu, Jean-Paul
name: Wind, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase transition occurring in a square 2-D spin lattice governed by an anisotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian has been studied according to two recently proposed methods. The first one, the Dressed Cluster Method, provides excellent evaluations of the cohesive energy, the discontinuity of its derivative around the critical (isotropic) value of the anisotropy parameter confirms the first-order character of the phase transition. Nevertheless the method introduces two distinct reference functions (either Néel or XY) which may in principle force the discontinuity. The Real Space Renormalization Group with Effective Interactions does not reach the same numerical accuracy but it does not introduce a reference function and the phase transition appears qualitatively as due to the existence of two domains, with specific fixed points. The method confirms the dependence of the spin gap on the anisotropy parameter occurring in the Heisenberg-Ising domain.
RIVASTIGMINE'S ABILITY TO PREVENT NEURONAL DEATH AND DAMAGE
Creators: name: Uzokova, Musavvara
name: Farhatova, Farhundabonu
name: Salokhitdinova, Nargiza
name: Mamurova, Mavludakhon
name: Kasimov, Arslanbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In modern neurology, special attention is paid to the search for effective methods of protecting nervous tissue from damaging factors and slowing down the processes of neurodegeneration. Rivastigmine, as a representative of the class of cholinesterase inhibitors, occupies a special place among drugs with neuroprotective properties due to its dual mechanism of action.
Mudanças nos Padrões dos Rendimentos de Agregados Familiares Rurais em Moçambique de 1996 a 2002 e suas Implicações para a Contribuição da Agricultura para a Redução da Pobreza
Creators: name: Boughton, Duncan
name: Mather, David
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Walker, Thomas S.
name: Cunguara, Benedito
name: Payongayong, Ellen M.
name: Boughton, Duncan
name: Mather, David
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Walker, Thomas S.
name: Cunguara, Benedito
name: Payongayong, Ellen M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique
subject: household
subject: income
subject: poverty

description: The challenge that faces Mozambique’s government is to design poverty reduction and rural development strategies that deliver three-dimensional growth: rapid growth to reduce poverty incidence quickly, sustainable growth to ensure that people permanently escape poverty, and broad-based growth to ensure that as many families as possible benefit from it. The specific objectives of this paper are: 1. To compare the level, sources, and distribution of rural household incomes in 1995-96 and 2001-02. To achieve this objective, the paper answers questions such as how have rural incomes changed over the six year period; how much have the poorest of the poor benefited; and have rural incomes grown evenly over the whole country or have some areas grown faster than others? 2. To compare the level and composition of agricultural income in 1995-96 and 2001-02. The paper considers the importance of agriculture relative to non-farm activities as a source of rural income, and the mix of agricultural activities, for different income groups. 3. To identify priorities for enhancing agriculture’s contribution to rural economic growth and poverty reduction in the medium term.
description: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique
The Anti-War Movement in Westmorland
Creators: name: Smalley, Roger
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 16, 111-127
description: Reaction in Westmorland to local losses during the Boer War was muted, yet there was deep concern in the county about British involvement in the conflict of 1914. The purpose of this article is to describe the nature of the anti-war movement in Westmorland and show how it fitted into the pattern of pacifist response nationally. An examination is made of the roles played by the Union of Democratic Control, conscientious objectors, the Northern Friends Peace Board, and Theodora Wilson Wilson, the Kendal Quaker who became a leading activist in the Fellowship of Reconciliation. The involvement of these organisations and individuals, it is argued, shows that anti-war sentiment in Westmorland was amongst the strongest anywhere in the country, and that the rejection and persecution it provoked requires recognition as a significant aspect of the county's history.
Effective field theories for interacting boundaries of 3D topological crystalline insulators through bosonisation
Creators: name: Salgado-Rebolledo, Patricio
name: Palumbo, Giandomenico
name: Pachos, Jiannis K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here, we analyse two Dirac fermion species in two spatial dimensions in the presence of general quartic contact interactions. By employing functional bosonisation techniques, we demonstrate that depending on the couplings of the fermion interactions the system can be effectively described by a rich variety of topologically massive gauge theories. Among these effective theories, we obtain an extended Chern-Simons theory with higher order derivatives as well as two coupled Chern-Simons theories. Our formalism allows for a general description of interacting fermions emerging, for example, at the gapped boundary of three-dimensional topological crystalline insulators.
description: 8 pages, published version
Toward Improved Marketing and Trade Policies to Promote Household Food Security in Central and Southern Mozambique: 2007 Update
Creators: name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Abdula, Danilo Carimo
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Abdula, Danilo Carimo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique
subject: marketing
subject: trade

description: As indicated by the title, this paper is an update of Research Paper 60E. While some of the wording and material are very similar to that paper, this new paper updates nearly all figures, and also deals in more detail with selected topics. Of special focus in this paper is demonstrating, explaining the reasons for, and assessing the importance of the very high prices of food staples in Mozambique. Mozambique’s food production and marketing system faces a huge set of challenges now and over the next decade, driven by structural constraints, population and income growth, and a rapidly rising urban share of population. We examine this challenge through the lens of the country’s primary staple, maize, focusing primarily on the central and southern regions of the country.
description: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique
title: WEB-программирование распределённых информационных систем
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2017

description: В учебном пособии рассматриваются современные стандарты построения распределенных информационных систем, средства и методы web-программирования. Пособие предназначено для студентов-бакалавров третьего курса по направлению «Прикладная информатика».
Two-body problem in periodic potentials
Creators: name: Wouters, M.
name: Orso, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the problem of two atoms interacting via a short range s-wave potential in the presence of a deep optical lattice of arbitrary dimension $D$. Using a tight binding approach, we derive analytical results for the properties of the bound state and the scattering amplitude. We show that the tunneling through the barriers induces a dimensional crossover from a confined regime at high energy to an anisotropic three dimensional regime at low energy. The critical value of the scattering length needed to form a two-body bound state shows a logaritmic dependence on the tunneling rate for D=1 and a power law for $D>1$. For the special case D=1, we also compare our analytical predictions with exact numerics, finding remarkably good agreement.
Interlinked Transactions in Cash Cropping Economies: Rationale for Persistence, and the Determinants of Farmer Participation and Performance in the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique
Creators: name: Benfica, Rui M.S.
name: Benfica, Rui M.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique
subject: marketing
subject: cash crop

description: Livelihood strategies among rural HHs in the Zambezi Valley are predominantly based on agricultural activities, but income diversification is increasingly important. Cash income from agriculture comes predominantly from tobacco and cotton production. Due to cash constraints and poor access to input and credit by farmers, and high demand from buyers to meet quality and volume requirements, contract farming (CF) is the dominant form in the organization of transactions in those cash cropping sectors.
description: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique
Medallic Commemorations of the Great War from Cumbria
Creators: name: Caruana, Ian
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 16, 129-143
description: The issuing of commemorative medals was an established feature of the years before 1914 which diminished markedly during the years of conflict. The end of hostilities was expressed by medals of two types - general medals celebrating the peace and in specific tribute medals presented to returning servicemen. Both types followed trends nationally which are reflected also in the medals from Cumbria.
Vegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants
Creators: name: Seager, Sara
name: Turner, Edwin L.
name: Schafer, Justin
name: Ford, Eric B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Earth's deciduous plants have a sharp order-of-magnitude increase in leaf reflectance between approximately 700 and 750 nm wavelength. This strong reflectance of Earth's vegetation suggests that surface biosignatures with sharp spectral features might be detectable in the spectrum of scattered light from a spatially unresolved extrasolar terrestrial planet. We assess the potential of Earth's step-function-like spectroscopic feature, referred to as the "red edge", as a tool for astrobiology. We review the basic characteristics and physical origin of the red edge and summarize its use in astronomy: early spectroscopic efforts to search for vegetation on Mars and recent reports of detection of the red edge in the spectrum of Earthshine (i.e., the spatially integrated scattered light spectrum of Earth). We present Earthshine observations from Apache Point Observatory to emphasize that time variability is key to detecting weak surface biosignatures such as the vegetation red edge. We briefly discuss the evolutionary advantages of vegetation's red edge reflectance, and speculate that while extraterrestrial "light harvesting organisms" have no compelling reason to display the exact same red edge feature as terrestrial vegetation, they might have similar spectroscopic features at different wavelengths than terrestrial vegetation. This implies that future terrestrial-planet-characterizing space missions should obtain data that allow time-varying, sharp spectral features at unknown wavelengths to be identified. We caution that some mineral reflectance edges are similar in slope and strength to vegetation's red edge (albeit at different wavelengths); if an extrasolar planet reflectance edge is detected care must be taken with its interpretation.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Astrobiology
NZFC’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
Creators: name: Boniface-Webb, Thomas
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2024

description: In 2022 the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) published its first fully comprehensive diversity and inclusion strategy, He Ara Whakaurunga Kanorau. The ambitious strategy aspired to draw together the existing framework of individually focused diversity funds, including those for Māori and women filmmakers, with an overarching set of policy intentions that aimed to position filmmakers from underrepresented groups at the forefront of the agency’s funding strategy. This article looks at how the NZFC aims to normalise its work in the diversity space through the creation of targeted funding strategies, and how the agency’s idealism, most notable in the breadth of the Diversity and Inclusion strategy and its sometimes nebulous content, can clash with the work of individual filmmakers, many of whom produce films that do not assimilate with the artificial framework. However, institutional intervention in the film industry undoubtedly plays a significant part in creating a vibrant national cinema for Aotearoa New Zealand that gives voice to many filmmakers who might have otherwise not been heard.
title: Алгоритмизация вычислительных задач
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2017

description: Электронное учебное пособие содержит алгоритмы наиболее часто используемых в инженерной практике и в современных математических пакетах прикладных программ численных методов и методов оптимизации, а также краткое описание приложения MSVisio, позволяющего автоматизировать процесс создания алгоритмов.