cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Target and double spin asymmetries of deeply virtual π0 production with a longitudinally polarized proton target and CLAS
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Nucleon structure
CLAS collaboration
Deeply Virtual Meson Production
Chiral-odd generalized parton distributions
Longitudinally polarized target

description: © 2017 The Author(s) The target and double spin asymmetries of the exclusive pseudoscalar channel e→p→→epπ0 were measured for the first time in the deep-inelastic regime using a longitudinally polarized 5.9 GeV electron beam and a longitudinally polarized proton target at Jefferson Lab with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS). The data were collected over a large kinematic phase space and divided into 110 four-dimensional bins of Q2, xB, −t and ϕ. Large values of asymmetry moments clearly indicate a substantial contribution to the polarized structure functions from transverse virtual photon amplitudes. The interpretation of experimental data in terms of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) provides the first insight on the chiral-odd GPDs H˜T and ET, and complement previous measurements of unpolarized structure functions sensitive to the GPDs HT and E¯T. These data provide a crucial input for parametrizations of essentially unknown chiral-odd GPDs and will strongly influence existing theoretical calculations based on the handbag formalism.
NLO electroweak contributions to gluino pair production at hadron colliders
Creators: name: Mirabella, Edoardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the full $\mathcal{O}(α_s^2α)$ corrections to the process of gluino pair production at hadron colliders in the framework of the real MSSM. We show that these contributions can be neglected at the LHC performing a scan over a wide region of the parameter space. The impact of these corrections in the parameter range investigated at the Tevatron is small.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures
Ni-Vanuatu in the Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme: impacts at home and away
Creators: name: Bailey, Rochelle
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program (SSGM), School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, College of Asia & the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Vanuatu
labour mobility
migration
remittances

description: "This paper covers four areas. It begins by outlining participation of ni-Vanuatu in the RSE. Secondly, it introduces my case study of Ambrym workers who are involved in seasonal contracts in Central Otago. From research in two primary field sites — Central Otago and Vanuatu from 2007−2013 — I have documented the participation and experiences of 22 ni-Vanuatu men in the scheme, as well as their families and communities in Port Vila and Ambrym. Thirdly, this research concerns Central Otago growers, vineyard workers and local community members. Fourthly, due to the length of time spent with the same participants, I have been able to follow and document changes in workers’ objectives and analyse various ‘developmental’ achievements resulting from participation in the scheme"- page 1
New Method to Reveal the Conflict Between Local Realism and Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Nagata, Koji
name: Ahn, Jaewook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate the expectation value of the Bell-Zukowski operator acting on qubit states of a two-particle Bell experiment. By using the equivalence between a set of N copies of a two-qubit experiment and a standard two-setting Bell experiment in an entangled 2N-particle state, we obtain an inequality, which we may call the Bell-Zukowski inequality. It determines whether the measured correlation functions of two-particle states can be modeled locally and realistically. In this Bell experiment of two particles, the conflict between local realism and quantum mechanics is discussed in conjunction with the violation of the Bell-Zukowski inequality. The main point of the result is that the Bell-Zukowski operator can be represented by the Bell-Mermin operator. The threshold visibility of two-particle interference analyzed in this scheme shows good agreement with the value to cause a violation of the Bell-Zukowski inequality.
description: To appear in Journal of the Korean Physical Society. We have introduced an additional assumption that the detector efficiency is perfect (i.e., 100%). We thank Professor Douglas G. Danforth for valuable comments
The contribution of body mass index to appraisal delay in colorectal cancer diagnosis: A structural equation modelling study
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: colorectal cancer
diagnostic delays
obesity
body mass index
appraisal interval

description: © 2017 The Author(s). Background:Appraisal delay (AD) refers to the time interval between onset of symptoms and the date a patient first seeks healthcare. Because studies have shown that individuals who are overweight or obese may delay or avoid seeking healthcare due to stigma, this study aims to investigate the role that weight plays in AD among symptomatic individuals subsequently diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC).Methods:Structural equation modelling tested the relationship between AD, body mass index (BMI), financial barriers, cognitive barriers, and reported symptoms among 179 newly diagnosed CRC patients in two U.S. healthcare systems.Results:BMI was directly and significantly related to AD (β=0.10; P=0.044) and to cognitive barriers (β=0.24; P=0.005). Cognitive barriers were direct and significant predictors of increased AD (β=0.32; P=0.000). Symptom experience and financial barriers were mediated through cognitive barriers.Conclusions:Model results support the hypothesis that increased BMI is significantly and directly associated with increased AD and key cognitive barriers relevant to care-seeking behaviour.
Women in family enterprises in Estonia
Creators: name: Kirsipuu, Maret
name: Silberg, Uno
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: women; family; family enterprises; family business

description: This article objective is to give an overview of the women in family enterprises on the basis of theoretical sources and approaches. In order to achieve this goal, an overview of the research findings have been provided, which have analyzed a woman's role in the family business. Family firms and family entrepreneurs have been defined differently by different authors, but what all definitions have in common is the family is involvement in business activities. A family entrepreneur can be both an individual whose entrepreneurial activities involve family members and a company, which was founded by family members. In family entrepreneurships, the members have trust towards each other and they communicate frequently, which will help them to achieve a common goal. The studies reflect predominantly men as family entrepreneurs in whose business activity the family members, including wife and children participate. The European Union has not yet provided a coherent definition of the family business, while increasing the role of women in family businesses in ensuring gender equality and giving importance to the role of the woman as the family entrepreneur
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)
Signatures of (Un)particles from a Hidden Sector in multiparticle dynamics at Tevatron/LHC
Creators: name: Sanchis-Lozano, Miguel-Angel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of multiparticle dynamics in hadron-hadron collisions at Tevatron and LHC could provide useful information on new physics in addition to the expected signatures on the transverse plane. We suggest that an analysis of inclusive correlations between emitted particles in $pp$ inelastic collisions, and factorial moments of multiplicity distributions, may be helpful in uncovering (un)particles from Hidden Sectors, using underlying events tagged by hard products like high $p_T$ leptons and photons, and applying stringent selection criteria like event shape variables, etc
description: 4 pages, 2 figs, Talk given at SUSY09, Northeastern University, Boston June 2009
Type II secretion substrates of Legionella pneumophila translocate out of the pathogen-occupied vacuole via a semipermeable membrane
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Acanthamoeba
chitinase
galectin
Legionella pneumophila
Legionellacontaining vacuole
macrophage
protease
type II secretion

description: © 2017 Truchan et al. Legionella pneumophila replicates in macrophages in a host-derived phagosome, termed the Legionella-containing vacuole (LCV). While the translocation of type IV secretion (T4S) effectors into the macrophage cytosol is well established, the location of type II secretion (T2S) substrates in the infected host cell is unknown. Here, we show that the T2S substrate ProA, a metalloprotease, translocates into the cytosol of human macrophages, where it associates with the LCV membrane (LCVM). Translocation is detected as early as 10 h postinoculation (p.i.), which is approximately the midpoint of the intracellular life cycle. However, it is detected as early as 6 h p.i. if ProA is hyperexpressed, indicating that translocation depends on the timing of ProA expression and that any other factors necessary for translocation are in place by that time point. Translocation occurs with all L. pneumophila strains tested and in amoebae, natural hosts for L. pneumophila. It was absent in murine bone marrow-derived macrophages and murine macrophage cell lines. The ChiA chitinase also associated with the cytoplasmic face of the LCVM at 6 h p.i. and in a T2Sdependent manner. Galectin-3 and galectin-8, eukaryotic proteins whose localization is influenced by damage to host membranes, appeared within the LCV of infected human but not murine macrophages beginning at 6 h p.i. Thus, we hypothesize that ProA and ChiA are first secreted into the vacuolar lumen by the activity of the T2S and subsequently traffic into the macrophage cytosol via a novel mechanism that involves a semipermeable LCVM. IMPORTANCE Infection of macrophages and amoebae plays a central role in the pathogenesis of L. pneumophila, the agent of Legionnaires’ disease. We have previously demonstrated that the T2S system of L. pneumophila greatly contributes to intracellular infection. However, the location of T2S substrates within the infected host cell is unknown. This report presents the first evidence of a L. pneumophila T2S substrate in the host cell cytosol and, therefore, the first evidence of a non-T4S effector trafficking out of the LCV. We also provide the first indication that the LCV is not completely intact but is instead semipermeable and that this occurs in human but not murine macrophages. Given this permeability, we hypothesize that other T2S substrates and LCV lumenal contents can escape into the host cell cytosol. Thus, these substrates may represent a battery of previously unidentified effectors that can interact with host factors and contribute to intracellular infection by L. pneumophila.
A Semantic Grid Oriented to E-Tourism
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.4

description: With increasing complexity of tourism business models and tasks, there is a clear need of the next generation e-Tourism infrastructure to support flexible automation, integration, computation, storage, and collaboration. Currently several enabling technologies such as semantic Web, Web service, agent and grid computing have been applied in the different e-Tourism applications, however there is no a unified framework to be able to integrate all of them. So this paper presents a promising e-Tourism framework based on emerging semantic grid, in which a number of key design issues are discussed including architecture, ontologies structure, semantic reconciliation, service and resource discovery, role based authorization and intelligent agent. The paper finally provides the implementation of the framework.
description: 12 PAGES, 7 Figures
Letter to the presidents of the national conferences of bishops concerning directory for Masses with children: Directorium de Missis cum pueris: November 1, 1973.
Creators: name: Catholic Church.Congregatio Pro Cultu Divino.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description:
 Translation of Directorium de Missis cum pueris.
 Title from cover.
Post-transcriptional regulation across human tissues
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Databases, Protein
Gene Expression Regulation
Humans
Organ Specificity
Proteome
RNA, Messenger
Transcription, Genetic

description: © 2017 Franks et al. Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation shape tissue-type-specific proteomes, but their relative contributions remain contested. Estimates of the factors determining protein levels in human tissues do not distinguish between (i) the factors determining the variability between the abundances of different proteins, i.e., mean-level-variability and, (ii) the factors determining the physiological variability of the same protein across different tissue types, i.e., across-tissues variability. We sought to estimate the contribution of transcript levels to these two orthogonal sources of variability, and found that scaled mRNA levels can account for most of the mean-level-variability but not necessarily for across-tissues variability. The reliable quantification of the latter estimate is limited by substantial measurement noise. However, protein-to-mRNA ratios exhibit substantial across-tissues variability that is functionally concerted and reproducible across different datasets, suggesting extensive post-transcriptional regulation. These results caution against estimating protein fold-changes from mRNA fold-changes between different cell-types, and highlight the contribution of post-transcriptional regulation to shaping tissue-type-specific proteomes.
title: Data-Driven Risk Models Could Help Target Pipeline Safety Inspections
Creators: name: Kowalewski, Rick
name: Young, Peg
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90414
subject: Inspection
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90599
subject: Pipeline safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90805
subject: Risk assessment
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97023
subject: Statistical analysis

description: BTS special report;6p. in various pagings
description: Federal safety agencies share a common problem—the need to target resources effectively to reduce risk. One way this targeting is commonly done is with a risk model that uses safety data along with expert judgment to identify and weight risk factors. In a joint effort, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) sought to develop a new statistical approach for modeling risk by letting the data weight the data—by using the statistical relationships among the data, not expert opinion, to develop the weights.
Agrargeschichte als Geschlechtergeschichte?
Creators: name: Langer-Ostrawsky, Gertrude
Publisher: name: Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes
Year: 2022

description: Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes, Bd. 2 (2005): Reguliertes Land. Agrarpolitik in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1930–1960
ImageSpace: An Environment for Image Ontology Management
Creators: name: Lu, Shiyong
name: Huang, Rong
name: Chebotko, Artem
name: Deng, Yu
name: Fotouhi, Farshad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: More and more researchers have realized that ontologies will play a critical role in the development of the Semantic Web, the next generation Web in which content is not only consumable by humans, but also by software agents. The development of tools to support ontology management including creation, visualization, annotation, database storage, and retrieval is thus extremely important. We have developed ImageSpace, an image ontology creation and annotation tool that features (1) full support for the standard web ontology language DAML+OIL; (2) image ontology creation, visualization, image annotation and display in one integrated framework; (3) ontology consistency assurance; and (4) storing ontologies and annotations in relational databases. It is expected that the availability of such a tool will greatly facilitate the creation of image repositories as islands of the Semantic Web.
description: Appeared in the International Journal of Information Theories and Applications (IJITA), 11(2), pp. 127-134, 2004
The growth and distribution of population in British Columbia, 1951-61
Creators: name: Welch, Ruth Lilian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The growth of population was an outstanding feature of the economic and social development of British Columbia, between 1951 and 1961. The effects of this remarkable growth on the distribution of population, among the census subdivisions of the province, is the particular aspect selected for study. Changes in population distribution result from areal inequalities of the rate of population growth and decline. These differences can be analysed in terms of the varying contributions of the natural and migrational components of population change in each part of the province. The "explanation" of redistribution is thus to be found in the factors which influence the action of the components of population change. This apparently straightforward approach to the topic is beset by a number of problems. Some arise from the concepts, methodology and techniques of population studies in general, as they are applied to the data available for the census subdivisions of British Columbia. Changes in the boundaries of the areal units and in the definitions of statistical categories also create difficulties. The demographic basis for the growth of population in the province as a whole is examined in Chapter Three. Several trends produced a greater relative importance of natural increase as a source of population growth, but net migration was still, in the nineteen -fifties, the major component of change. Estimates of the natural and migrational components of population change in each census subdivision, and in certain cities and municipalities are provided. Migration was the primary cause of regional variations in the rate of population change, although natural increase was far from uniform. Several generic types of population change are identified, to demonstrate the demographic processes and causal factors at work. In Chapter Four the growth in each part of the province is set into perspective, by considering the distribution of the total provincial growth of population. In this way, the extent to which each component of change was responsible for the shifts in the distribution of population can be assessed. Migration was more important than natural increase as a mechanism of adjustment between the initial distribution of population and the changes in the factors which shape the distribution pattern. [ ... ]
Lattice-Boltzmann model for axisymmetric thermal flows
Creators: name: Li, Q.
name: He, Y. L.
name: Tang, G. H.
name: Tao, W. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this brief report, a thermal lattice-Boltzmann (LB) model is presented for axisymmetric thermal flows in the incompressible limit. The model is based on the double-distribution-function LB method, which has attracted much attention since its emergence for its excellent numerical stability. Compared with the existing axisymmetric thermal LB models, the present model is simpler and retains the inherent features of the standard LB method. Numerical simulations are carried out for the thermally developing laminar flows in circular ducts and the natural convection in an annulus between two coaxial vertical cylinders. The Nusselt number obtained from the simulations agrees well with the analytical solutions and/or the results reported in previous studies.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Performance Comparisions of ICA Algorithms to DS-CDMA Detection
Creators: name: Parmar, Sargam
name: Unhelkar, Bhuvan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Commercial cellular networks, like the systems based on DS-CDMA, face many types of interferences such as multi-user interference inside each sector in a cell to interoperate interference. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) has been used as an advanced preprocessing tool for blind suppression of interfering signals in DS-CDMA communication systems. The role of ICA is to provide an interference-mitigated signal to the conventional detection. This paper evaluates the performance of some major ICA algorithms like Cardoso's joint approximate diagonalization of eigen matrices (JADE), Hyvarinen's fixed point algorithm and Comon's algorithm to solve the symbol estimation problem of the multi users in a DSCDMA communication system. The main focus is on blind separation of convolved CDMA mixture and the improvement of the downlink symbol estimation. The results of numerical experiment are compared with those obtained by the Single User Detection (SUD) receiver, ICA detector and combined SUD-ICA detector.
description: Journal of Telecommunications,Volume 1, Issue 1, pp52-56, February 2010
Hypervalent iodine reagents in high valent transition metal chemistry
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: hypervalent iodine
oxidation
oxidant
redox
high valent
high oxidation state
catalysis

description: Over the last 20 years, high valent metal complexes have evolved from mere curiosities to being at the forefront of modern catalytic method development. This approach has enabled transformations complimentary to those possible via traditional manifolds, most prominently carbon-heteroatom bond formation. Key to the advancement of this chemistry has been the identification of oxidants that are capable of accessing these high oxidation state complexes. The oxidant has to be both powerful enough to achieve the desired oxidation as well as provide heteroatom ligands for transfer to the metal center; these heteroatoms are often subsequently transferred to the substrate via reductive elimination. Herein we will review the central role that hypervalent iodine reagents have played in this aspect, providing an ideal balance of versatile reactivity, heteroatom ligands, and mild reaction conditions. Furthermore, these reagents are environmentally benign, non-toxic, and relatively inexpensive compared to other inorganic oxidants. We will cover advancements in both catalysis and high valent complex isolation with a key focus on the subtle effects that oxidant choice can have on reaction outcome, as well as limitations of current reagents.
Public environmental expenditures in Estonia during 1995-2011
Creators: name: Pädam, Sirje
name: Ehrlich, Üllas
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: public environmental expenditure; earmarking; tax shifting

description: The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of earmarking on central government environment protection expenditure. Since central government spending for the environment relies on earmarked revenues, which is not the case of the local government, it is expected that central government expenditure is to a lesser degree affected by macroeconomic developments. The analysis indicates that this is the case because correlation between GDP change and the change in central government expenditure for environment protection is smaller than that of the local government. It is also found that increasing revenues from earmarked environmental charges have contributed to growing expenditure. However, the analysis also suggests that the main driver of this growth is the expansion is EU funds. Reliance on EU expenditure was further reinforced by changes in earmarking rules in 2008-2009
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)
Human perception of electrical stimulation on the surface of somatosensory cortex
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Brain Mapping
Brain-Computer Interfaces
Electric Stimulation
Electrodes
Electrodes, Implanted
Humans
Somatosensory Cortex

description: Recent advancement in electrocorticography (ECoG)-based brain-computer interface technology has sparked a new interest in providing somatosensory feedback using ECoG electrodes, i.e., cortical surface electrodes. We conducted a 28-day study of cortical surface stimulation in an individual with arm paralysis due to brachial plexus injury to examine the sensation produced by electrical stimulation of the somatosensory cortex. A high-density ECoG grid was implanted over the somatosensory and motor cortices. Stimulation through cortical surface electrodes over the somatosensory cortex successfully elicited arm and hand sensations in our participant with chronic paralysis. There were three key findings. First, the intensity of perceived sensation increased monotonically with both pulse amplitude and pulse frequency. Second, changing pulse width changed the type of sensation based on qualitative description provided by the human participant. Third, the participant could distinguish between stimulation applied to two neighboring cortical surface electrodes, 4.5 mm center-to-center distance, for three out of seven electrode pairs tested. Taken together, we found that it was possible to modulate sensation intensity, sensation type, and evoke sensations across a range of locations from the fingers to the upper arm using different stimulation electrodes even in an individual with chronic impairment of somatosensory function. These three features are essential to provide effective somatosensory feedback for neuroprosthetic applications.
Embedding Versus Immersion in General Relativity
Creators: name: Monte, Edmundo M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We briefly discuss the concepts of immersion and embedding of space-times in higher-dimensional spaces. We revisit the classical work by Kasner in which he constructs a model of immersion of the Schwarzschild exterior solution into a six-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean manifold. We show that, from a physical point of view, this model is not entirely satisfactory since the causal structure of the immersed space-time is not preserved by the immersion.
description: 5 pages
Role of environment in strengthening competitiveness of cities by example of European Green Capitals and Tallinn
Creators: name: Ratas, Jüri
name: Mäeltsemees, Sulev
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: city environment; competitiveness; sustainable development; European Green Capital (EGC); Tallinn

description: Guaranteeing a high-level living environment is one of the most important preconditions to the balanced and sustainable economic and social development of the European Union. Serious environmental problems can be seen in European cities, which are the places where most of the population live and which create the highest number of jobs, economic growth and added value. The level of urbanisation in Europe was 72.7% in 2010 and the UN forecast that it will increase to 82.2% by 2050. The European Green Capital Award was created in 2006 in order to recognise cities that have contributed to the improvement of their quality of life. The cities that have won the award have started using the most innovative and efficient measures for increasing the city’s competitiveness, and are an example of how to achieve sustainable development for all cities, not just capitals. The environmental indicators of cities that have won the European Green Capital Award are high. In this article the problem is analysed using the example of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, which strives for a place among cities with the highest quality of life in Europe. The objective of this article is to analyse the areas of the city’s environmental activities and environmental organisation in the context of increasing competitiveness. The original database used by the author in this article consists of the responses given by the governments of the cities who have already been awarded the title of European Green Capital when asked to describe the impact that applying for and achieving the title had on their cities
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)
Post-colonial Creativity in Language and Cultural Constructions
Creators: name: Adami, Esterino
Publisher: name: Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal
Year: 2021

description: This paper investigates the effects of post-colonial creativity on language use, especially at lexico-morphological and metaphorical levels, by focusing on railway discourse in South Asian Englishes, with special reference to Indian English and Pakistani English. Rather than merely adopting the constraints of technical language, the lexis of railway discourse constitutes a significant linguistic domain, in which constructions and devices emerge from various productive processes including vocabulary fossilisation (e.g. obsolete items derived from Victorian English), lexical shift (the extension of standard meaning) and semantic expansion (via borrowing or code-mixing with reference to local languages). The paper draws on both published sources as well as authentic materials (the websites of the Indian and Pakistani railway companies). Following Yamuna Kachru and Larry Smith’s contention that literary works in English “are a valuable source of sociocultural knowledge not easily recoverable from grammars, dictionaries and textbooks”, I shall also expand my scope and briefly discuss the phenomenon of post-colonial creativity for railway discourse in literary texts as well, given the paramount importance and sociocultural connotations of the train in various South Asian narrative contexts.
description: Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal, Vol 17 No 2 (2013): Post-colonial Creativity: Language, Politics and Aesthetics
Bitistatin-functionalized fluorescent nanodiamond particles specifically bind to purified human platelet integrin receptor αiibβ3 and activated platelets
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: carbon nanoparticles
blood clots
imaging
platelet fibrinogen receptor
fluorescence
disintegrin
thromboembolic complications
thrombosis

description: © 2017 Marcinkiewicz et al. Thromboembolic events (TEE) underwrite key causes of death in developed countries. While advanced imaging technologies such as computed tomography scans serve to diagnose blood clots during acute cardiovascular events, no such technology is available in routine primary care for TEE risk assessment. Here, we describe an imaging platform technology based on bioengineered fluorescent nanodiamond particles (F-NDPs) functionalized with bitistatin (Bit), a disintegrin that specifically binds to the αIIbβ3 integrin, platelet fibrinogen receptor (PFR) on activated platelets. Covalent linkage of purified Bit to F-NDP was concentration-dependent and saturable, as validated by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using specific anti-Bit antibodies. F-NDP–Bit interacted with purified PFR, either in immobilized or soluble form. Lotrafiban, a nonpeptide, αIIbβ3 receptor antagonist, specifically blocked F-NDP–Bit–PFR complex formation. Moreover, F-NDP–Bit specifically binds to activated platelets incorporated into a clot generated by thrombin-activated rat platelet-rich plasma (PRP). Our results suggest that engineered F-NDP–Bit particles could serve as noninvasive, “real-time” optical diagnostics for clots present in blood vessels.
Nature symbolism and moral isolation in Hawthorne
Creators: name: Stott, Jon Copeland
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this thesis is to present a systematic examination of the major groups of nature symbols used by Hawthorne in his novels and tales treating moral isolation. Since Poe's and Melville's early remarks on Hawthorne's love of allegory and his power of blackness, many critics have studied the extensive use of symbolism and the detailed analysis of human nature in his works. While critics have not ignored the numerous examples of nature symbolism contained in the works, none has made a comprehensive analysis of Hawthorne's systematic patterns. Such an analysis reveals a significant aspect of the already acknowledged depth and genius of his symbolic method and shows that his use of nature symbolism, differing from that of both his puritan ancestors and transcendentalist contemporaries, serves as further evidence of his great artistic originality. In Chapter Two, an examination of The Scarlet Letter, in which nearly all the nature symbols are used, reveals the great richness and complexity with which Hawthorne develops them. The journey into the wilderness is the chief symbol, giving not only a structural unity to several vital chapters in the centre of the novel, but also revealing the extent of the moral isolation of the characters. Within this major pattern, several other patterns emerge: the interplay of sunlight and darkness, the physical nature of the wilderness itself, and the attitudes of the various characters to nature symbolise the moral natures of Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale. The following chapters examine the systematic application of each set of symbols to a specific aspect of moral isolation. Moral innocence and attempts to regain or retain it are symbolized by sunshine, flowers and the harmonious relationship of individuals with nature; moral evil and guilt by the journey into the wilderness, the wild nature of the forest itself, and darkness. A third group of symbols relating to the garden reflect another aspect of isolation, that of the isolated individual attempting to enter into contact with others. Within each of these three symbolic patterns, the individual symbols are modified to reflect the unique moral conditions of the particular characters. Hawthorne's use of nature imagery takes on added significance when considered in relation to his allegorical method. It becomes an integral part of the method by which he was able to retell old material and common themes in such a way as to give each a new life and meaning. It is a part of the method which has helped to establish his position as a major American author.
Probing Hamiltonian dynamics by means of the 0-1 test for chaos
Creators: name: Romero-Bastida, M
name: Olivares-Robles, M A
name: Braun, E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recently proposed test for chaos [Gottwald G A and Melbourne I 2004 \textit{Proc. R. Soc. London A} {\bf 460} 603-611] is employed to probe the Hamiltonian dynamics of a one-dimensional anharmonic oscillator lattice. For a homogeneous (uniform mass) lattice in the weakly chaotic regime and for a heavy impurity embedded in the lattice, the results stemming from the time record of the position and momentum of a single oscillator in the former case, and for that same variables corresponding to the impurity in the latter, are inconclusive to determine the dynamical regime of the system. This seemingly odd behavior has its origin in the insufficient time series length employed. Nevertheless, for both cases the necessary time record length needed to obtain the correct result renders the test impractical. In particular, for the second case, specially in the large system size limit (which is the physically relevant one due to its connection with Brownian motion), the estimated length of the position time series required by the test to correctly classify the signal is beyond the reach of present-day computer capability. Thus our results indicate that the proposed test, for the aforementioned cases of Hamiltonian chaos, affords no clear advantage over conventional phase space reconstruction methods.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures, IOP style, Slightly modified version, including an additional reference, to the one submitted to J. Phys. A: Math. Gen
Graphene Andreev Billiards
Creators: name: Cserti, J.
name: Hagymasi, I.
name: Kormanyos, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the energy levels of graphene based Andreev billiards consisting of a superconductor region on top of a monolayer graphene sheet. For the case of Andreev retro-reflection we show that the graphene based Andreev billiard can be mapped to the normal metal-superconducting billiards with the same geometry. We also derived a semiclassical quantization rule in graphene based Andreev billiards. The exact and the semiclassically obtained spectrum agree very well both for the case of Andreev retro-reflection and specular Andreev reflection.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Explicit Bounds from the Alon–Boppana Theorem
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Graph spectrum
graph Laplacian
Alon-Boppana theorem
spectra of regular graphs

description: © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis. The purpose of this article is to give explicit methods for bounding the number of vertices of finite k-regular graphs with given second eigenvalue. Let X be a finite k-regular graph and μ1(X) the second largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. It follows from the well-known Alon–Boppana theorem that for any ε > 0 there are only finitely many such X with μ1(X) < (2 − ϵ)√k − 1, and we effectively implement Serre's quantitative version of this result. For any k and ε, this gives an explicit upper bound on the number of vertices in a k-regular graph with μ1(X) < (2 − ϵ)√k − 1).
On certain aspects of the need and possibility for the administrative-territorial reform in Estonia
Creators: name: Raudjärv, Matti
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: administrative-territorial reform; regional policy; mergers of municipalities; strong cities as centres of attraction; relocations of the population to larger centres; reorganisation of the administrative structure in Estonia; functions of the state and o

description: The paper treats important problems of regional and local government policy, such as the possibility of and need for the administrative-territorial reform, including merging of municipalities and definition of mutual relationships between the state and local governments and their functions. The need for sustainable and strong municipalities has been emphasised also on the level of the European Union already several years ago. Possible mergers of Estonian county centres with their surrounding rural municipalities, also the possibility for having several centres of attraction in a county are discussed. Statistics on demographic changes in the Estonian population, concentration of the population above all to larger cities, and decrease in rural population are presented. Also statistics, for instance, on changes in the number of pupils in counties are presented. A few suggestions are made for the further development of the regional and local government policy, including based on the considerably more radical activities in Finland in this field.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)
Agrargeschichte als interkulturell vergleichende Globalgeschichte?
Creators: name: Mitterauer, Michael
Publisher: name: Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes
Year: 2022

description: Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes, Bd. 2 (2005): Reguliertes Land. Agrarpolitik in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1930–1960
On the L p-Poisson Semigroup Associated with Elliptic Systems
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Poisson semigroup
Second order elliptic system
Infinitesimal generator
Graph lipschitz domain
Higher order system
Lame system
Poisson kernel
Nontangential maximal function
Whitney arrays
Sobolev space
Dirichlet problem
Regularity problem
Dirichlet-to-Normal map

description: © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. We study the infinitesimal generator of the Poisson semigroup in Lp associated with homogeneous, second-order, strongly elliptic systems with constant complex coefficients in the upper-half space, which is proved to be the Dirichlet-to-Normal mapping in this setting. Also, its domain is identified as the linear subspace of the Lp-based Sobolev space of order one on the boundary of the upper-half space consisting of functions for which the Regularity problem is solvable. Moreover, for a class of systems containing the Lamé system, as well as all second-order, scalar elliptic operators, with constant complex coefficients, the action of the infinitesimal generator is explicitly described in terms of singular integral operators whose kernels involve first-order derivatives of the canonical fundamental solution of the given system. Furthermore, arbitrary powers of the infinitesimal generator of the said Poisson semigroup are also described in terms of higher order Sobolev spaces and a higher order Regularity problem for the system in question. Finally, we indicate how our techniques may be adapted to treat the case of higher order systems in graph Lipschitz domains.
Anmerkungen zur aktuellen Geldpolitik des Eurosystems
Creators: name: Rohde, Armin
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: Euro-Currency Area; European Debt Crisis; European Central Bank; Eurosystem; interest rate policy; monetary policy; Outright Monetary Transactions

description: In the present article a recently observable very expansive monetary policy not only in the Eurosystem but also in nearly all leading industrialized countries is analysed as a result of a fundamental change in monetary policy strategy. The goal of research is to show that this fundamental change in monetary policy from concentrating on developments of the quantity of money to focusing strictly on developments of interest rates and interest rate levels is the most important reason for recent most expansive monetary policy, which is described best by a strategy of lowest interest rate policy and which deals with interest rate levels of zero or near zero percent. It is argued in the present article too, that a lasting period of very low interest rates is connected with severe dangers or disadvantages not only for special institutions of the companies sector and for private household savings, but also for investments in real capital and for solving debt crises, because it gives wrong economic incentives. In addition such an expansive monetary policy forced investors to look at investments with higher risks, to get a better expected return on investment, which could be the reason for new financial instabilities. At least the outright monetary transactions programme of the ECB is discussed. This OMT-Programme could be seen as a proper monetary policy instrument of the recent interest rate policy strategy, especially to transmit central banks key interest rate changes to all segments of the financial markets in all member countries of the Euro area. But there are very different or even conflicting interpretations of the sense of that programme between ECB and Deutsche Bundesbank. This strong conflict can be discussed as fundamental difference of how monetary policy should act in recent days
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)
In memoriam. Professor Mait Miljan (16.09.1939-1.16.2007). Mit Zusammenfassung
Creators: name: Sõrg, Mart
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014

description: I got to know Mait Miljan better in 1982 when the University of Tartu celebrated the 350th anniversary. Mait was one of the organisers. I then discovered that he had especially good organisational skills that became irreplaceable in developing the faculty work and were also very helpful in the foreign relations of our Faculty. He started his career as the marketing expert after graduating from Tartu University in 1963. In 1972 he successfully defended there his PhD in economics on the field of marketing. In 1974 he was elected as the Head of Department of Sales Management. He stayed on this position for ten years, during that period he became one of the best expert of sales management and marketing in Estonia. When the market economy was introduced in Estonia, there was no doubt that Mait Miljan was the best candidate to lead the newly created department of marketing. Virtually he had to start from scratch. His task was to develop a specialized programme of marketing studies and find new lecturers. He completed it successfully. As his achievements founding a new department were so impressive, then 1992 he was selected as the Deputy Dean in the faculty of Economics. His main research areas were the marketing management of the transition economy, value-based marketing management, cost and pricing, research and prediction of demand. He compiled two textbooks on these topics that helped several Estonian companies to shape their marketing strategy. He enjoyed doing research work together with his colleagues. His CV from the year 2005 counts 83 publications, from which the majority were written together with domestic and foreign co-authors. Mait always kept his word and was very accurate. It made it very pleasant attending
the international conferences with him. Also he liked to live healthy and loved to do sports. He raised his children by these principles, organised lot of events for the family at his own-built cottage at Koolma Lake.
He retired in 2005, but still had to continue teaching as a simultaneous retiring of the colleagues would otherwise have left too much teaching for younger teachers. The interests of the faculty and the department always came first for him. Unfortunately, he did not get to really enjoy his retirement as the beginning of 2007 he was diagnosed with cancer. Mait will be remembered as a hard-working, higly-principled poised man. Mait lives continously on both in my and my colleague´s memories.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)