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From Storytelling to Storylistening: How the Hit Podcast S-Town Reconfigured the Production and Reception of Narrative Nonfiction
Creators: name: Waldmann, Ella
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2020

description: The 2017 hit podcast S-Town has been hailed for inaugurating a new genre, the audio nonfiction novel. Drawing from the recent evolutions in the field of media-conscious narratology (Ryan and Thon; DeMair), this article envisions creative nonfiction podcasts as narrative constructs. Previous research has thus far tended to assimilate such original podcast productions to conventional radio programs, seldom taking into account the specificity of the podcast as a new medium. This article explores the implications of this innovation through the case study of S-Town. By reclaiming the model of the novel, S-Town’s innovative load paradoxically relies on a return to traditional written forms. But in terms of broadcasting and reception, the podcast introduces a change of paradigm insofar as it offers a more immersive and interactive listening experience. This experience is in turn embedded in the creative process, and narrative nonfiction becomes as much storytelling as storylistening.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 4 (2020): Popular Culture in a new Media Age & Other Essays
Die Ausgrabungen in Boğazköy-Ḫattuša 2020
Creators: name: Schachner, Andreas
Publisher: name: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ḫattuša
subject: Unterstadt
subject: Mittelbronzezeit
subject: kārum-Zeit
subject: hethitische Zeit
subject: römische Kaiserzeit
subject: Villa
subject: Ḫattuša
subject: lower city
subject: kārum-period
subject: Hitite period
subject: Roman imperial period
subject: villa

description: Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1. Halbband 2021
description: Eine Bauschicht, die stratigraphisch älter ist als die bisher bekannte kārum-zeitliche Bebauung, liefert in der nördlichen Unterstadt wichtige Hinweise auf die frühe Entwicklung in Boğazköy. Nach einer Nutzung des Areals in der kārum-Zeit, die ohne erkennbare Unterbrechung bis in die hethitische Epoche reicht, wird auf der Innenseite des Stadttores der nördlichen Unterstadt eine große Verkehrsfläche freigelassen, die den Zugang zur Siedlung erleichtert. Ausgrabungen in der Mitte und im Osten der Terrasse belegen eine intensive Nutzung in hethitischer Zeit, die jedoch nicht bis in die jüngere Großreichszeit andauert. Die Komplexität der römischen Befunde vermittelt nicht nur einen Einblick in die Geschichte dieser Epoche, sondern läßt auch Rückschlüsse auf das Verhältnis zwischen den römischen und lokalen Kräften zu.
Intercropping of lupin for weed control and complementary grain production in organic farming
Creators: name: Carton, Nicolas
name: Carlsson, Georg
name: Steen Jensen, Erik
name: Hellou, Guenaelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: DiverIMPACTSPA
Intercropping
Organic
Barriers and Enablers
Cropping system

description: Problem
 Lupin crops (white lupin, narrow-leafed lupin) fix nitrogen, produce protein-rich seeds and can diversify crop rotations, However, the low competitive ability of lupin towards weeds and its high yield variability is a barrier to increase its cultivation with no or reduced herbicide use, Solution
 A cereal (winter or spring) or camelina (spring) crop can be grown with lupin at a low density. The intercrop can compensate the low utilisation of soil nitrogen and light interception by lupin helping to reduce weed burden for lupin during the early stages of growth.
From Hand-hold to Haunt-held: “Lesbian Continuum” Meets “Infection in the Sentence” in Emily Carroll’s Comics
Creators: name: Dokou, Christina
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2020

description: The article examines two works by Canadian (web)comics artist Emily Carroll, “A Lady’s Hands Are Cold” (2014) and “Anu-Anulan and Yir’s Daughter” (2011) in relation to a pair of second-wave feminism concepts, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s “infection in the sentence” (from the 1979 The Madwoman in the Attic) and Adrienne Rich’s “lesbian continuum” (from her 1980 “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”). What the analysis shows is that the two conditions of woman-identified relationships are not mutually exclusive, as it might be inferred from their definition and critical juxtaposition so far, but may actually be modalities of the same situation, depending on the variable of actual unmediated affection between two women. The article also focuses on how Carroll’s artistic innovations, transplanted from webcomics technology onto the printed page within the wider context of the new expressive possibilities cultivated by the hybrid enunciatory apparatus of sequential art, eloquently depict this continuum in both its infected and beneficent versions, visualizing the diachronically-relevant mechanics of this complex process of woman-to-woman identification.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 4 (2020): Popular Culture in a new Media Age & Other Essays
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach for Assessing Catch-and-Release Impacts and Angler Beliefs in the Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) Recreational Fishery
Creators: name: Dinkelacker, Olivia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2025

Recreational angling is a popular leisure activity globally, providing considerable economic and societal benefits. Among the most popular recreational fisheries on the eastern seaboard of North America is that for striped bass (Morone saxatilis). Due to management regulations and voluntary conservation efforts, most striped bass caught are released back into the water. The welfare of these fish, however, can be influenced by various stressors related to angler behavior. Research on effects of catch-and- release on striped bass has yet to fully address the range of gear types and techniques used in the recreational fishery. Notably, no study has investigated the impact of air exposure on striped bass. Additionally, little is known about the social norms, perceptions, and attitudes that shape angler behavior in the striped bass recreational fishery. This thesis addresses these gaps by employing a multi-disciplinary approach combining a field assessment to quantify physical and physiological impairment in striped bass following capture and handling, using reflex action mortality predictors and tri-axial accelerometer loggers to measure post-release activity and mortality, alongside an angler survey to investigate social norms, perceptions, and attitudes related to best practices, threats to the stock, and management efforts. Chapter 2 reveals that several factors, including water temperature, fight time, handling time, air exposure, total length, hook location, and gear type, influence striped bass welfare. Decision tree analysis revealed air exposure as the most important predictor of equilibrium test outcomes, with 50% of striped bass air exposed for 120 seconds losing equilibrium. In addition, delayed recovery following release was observed for striped bass exposed to air for 30 or 120 seconds compared to those without air exposure. Chapter 3 revealed varied awareness in the angler community about the stressors affecting striped bass, although anglers reported frequently engaging in best practices such as limiting handling time. Anglers perceive commercial harvest and juvenile habitat loss as the greatest threats to the fishery and support a range of conservation actions, including management regulations. In the final chapter, I discuss how the findings from Chapters 2 and 3 can inform education and outreach to promote catch-and-release best practices that reduce angler impact.
Ironie et dissimulation dans la nouvelle et dans la comédie : réflexions sur les œuvres de Des Périers, Marguerite de Navarre, Molière et Mme de Lafayette
Creators: name: Edinger, Monika G. B.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Irony, in its common sense, is a linguistic phenomenon (a rhetorical device or a literary technique such as verbal irony), a philosophical concept (Socratic or Ciceronian irony), the intentional disguise of an utterance in order to convey a meaning different from what has been said to what is implied, or the result of unintentional actions (such as situational irony). Although there are connections between verbal and situational irony, between literary and philosophical principles, the complexity of irony still gives rise to numerous questions. Consequently, this dissertation examines the functions of verbal and situational irony in a corpus of 16th- and 17th-century texts with respect to the affinity between the genres of the nouvelle and the comedy. Our principal objective is to present a comparative and structural analysis which shows the interplay between the poly-functional uses of irony, along with the phenomenon of laughter, and the theme of marital infidelity in the following works: the Nouvelles Récréations et joyeux devis of Bonaventure Des Périers, the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre and the Dames galantes of Brantôme (pertaining to the nouvelles and discussed in the first chapter); the Comédie des quatre femmes of Marguerite de Navarre and Dom Juan by Molière as representatives of comedy (discussed in the second chapter); conversely, Madame de Lafayette’s Princesse de Clèves is a hybrid text analysed in the third chapter. To complement our corpus, we also consider classic concepts of irony as established by Socrates and Cicero, early principles of laughter as defined by Laurent Joubert, as well as critical theory of key figures such as Henri Bergson, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Philippe Hamon. The framework for this study arises from the fact that the affinity between the novella and the comedy with respect to the concept of verbal irony remains relatively unexplored. While the contrastive mechanisms of ironical utterances often turn the communication of truth into theatrical performances, we argue that the intertwining of narrative and drama unfolds the problems of conflicting realities and thus, constitutes the medium that ultimately unites our corpus and theme while offering new aspects of interpretation.
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title: Development of measures to increase the capacity of the energy complex of the Naulsky oil field
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Year: 2019
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description: The work is devoted to the design of a new energy complex for the Naulskoye oil field. The paper outlines the principles of construction and operation of energy systems based on small energy. The main stages are the selection of power equipment and cables, the calculation of the levels of short-circuit currents and single-phase earth-fault currents. In each section, the methodology of calculation and tables showing the results of the performed calculations are given in detail. The account of features and specificity of the object of study is made Chapters are accompanied by theoretical material.
The Morphology of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Sky
Creators: name: Munshi, Dipak
name: Smidt, Joseph
name: Joudaki, Shahab
name: Coles, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At high angular frequencies the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect constitutes the dominant signal in the CMB sky. The tSZ effect is caused by large scale pressure fluctuations in the baryonic distribution in the Universe so its statistical properties provide estimates of corresponding properties of the projected 3D pressure fluctuations. It's power spectrum is a sensitive probe of the density fluctuations, and the bispectrum can be used to separate the bias associated with pressure. The bispectrum is often probed with a one-point real-space analogue, the skewness. In addition to the skewness the morphological properties, as probed by the well known Minkowski Functionals (MFs), also require the generalized one-point statistics, which at the lowest order are identical to the skewness parameters. The concept of generalized skewness parameters can be extended to define a set of three associated generalized skew-spectra. We use these skew-spectra to probe the morphology of the tSZ sky or the y-sky. We show how these power spectra can be recovered from the data in the presence of arbitrary mask and noise templates using the well known Pseudo-Cl (PCL) approach for arbitrary beam shape. We also employ an approach based on the halo model to compute the tSZ bispectrum. The bispectrum from each of these models is then used to construct the generalized skew-spectra. We consider the performance of an all-sky survey with Planck-type noise and compare the results against a noise-free ideal experiment using a range of smoothing angles. We find that the skew-spectra can be estimated with very high signal-to-noise ratio from future frequency cleaned tSZ maps that will be available from experiments such as Planck. This will allow their mode by mode estimation for a wide range of angular frequencies and will help us to differentiate them from various other sources of non-Gaussianity.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Toxic Fans: Distinctions and Ambivalence
Creators: name: Arouh, Melenia
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2020

description: Participation in online fandoms of popular culture has become today a mainstream activity, receiving much scholarly and industry attention. This attention has been both positive and negative, at certain times praising the enthusiasm and innovation of fans, while at other times criticizing toxic practices deemed disruptive and destructive. This paper reviews what is generally termed as “toxic fans,” in an effort to explicate its meaning as well as its underlying moral framing. Specifically, the etymology of the word toxic is considered so as to explain how it is used in current discourse about online fan culture. Following this discussion, it is argued that the nature of fan practices should be closely studied in relation to prevalent attitudes in contemporary society that are defined by fear and a certain “othering” of the online fanatic. Finally, the ambivalent nature of the word toxic is discussed in relation to the antagonism usually observed in producer/fan relations as these are conducted in online spaces.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 4 (2020): Popular Culture in a new Media Age & Other Essays
Positive speed for high-degree automaton groups
Creators: name: Amir, Gideon
name: Virag, Balint
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60B15, 20E08, 05C21, 05C81

description: Mother groups are the basic building blocks for polynomial automaton groups. We show that, in contrast with mother groups of degree 0 or 1, any bounded, symmetric, generating random walk on the mother groups of degree at least 3 has positive speed. The proof is based on an analysis of resistance in fractal mother graphs. We give upper bounds on resistances in these graphs, and show that infinite versions are tran- sient.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
Weighted Conformal LiDAR-Mapping for Structured SLAM
Creators: name: Prieto-Fernández, Natalia
name: Fernández-Blanco, Sergio
name: Fernández-Blanco, Álvaro
name: Benítez-Andrades, José Alberto
name: Carro-De-Lorenzo, Francisco
name: Benavides, Carmen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the main challenges in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is real-time processing. High-computational loads linked to data acquisition and processing complicate this task. This article presents an efficient feature extraction approach for mapping structured environments. The proposed methodology, weighted conformal LiDAR-mapping (WCLM), is based on the extraction of polygonal profiles and propagation of uncertainties from raw measurement data. This is achieved using conformal M bius transformation. The algorithm has been validated experimentally using 2-D data obtained from a low-cost Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) range finder. The results obtained suggest that computational efficiency is significantly improved with reference to other state-of-the-art SLAM approaches.
"It is our American Destiny to bring about the unity of the Whiteman‚Äôs World‚Äù: Political Articulation and White Awakening in the US South Civil Rights Era
Creators: name: Steinkuehler, Terra
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2025

In an application of political articulation theory, this paper analyzes the relationship between white supremacist rhetoric, party politics, and the political field. Using two distinct
 cases, the Dixiecrats and the National States Rights Party, I ask the questions, how did white supremacist political parties in the mid-twentieth century shape their rhetoric to articulate their constituency? And further, how does a minor party‚Äôs position in the political field, center or margin, affect their political articulation? I find that field position does indeed determine a party's use of political articulation. The party with central positioning made appeals to a wider audience by framing their segregationist fight as legalistic in nature, and not white supremacist. In the marginal party position, rather than suturing disparate coalitions, the strategy of choice was to engage in political purity.
You’ve Become Part of a Bigger Universe. You Just Don’t Know it Yet: Adaptation, Intertextuality and the Case of Total Branded Entertainment
Creators: name: Marazi, Katerina
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2020

description: Storytelling in the 21st century demonstrates a blurring of boundaries, fluid texts, intertextual relations, media convergence, and transmedia storytelling. Power dynamics between producers/consumers are becoming more prominent due to higher audience interaction and engagement. More importantly, as this paper argues, there is an overwhelming presence of texts in Pop Culture whose stature is influenced and affected by branded entertainment in the context of total branded entertainment. Adopting a cultural studies approach, this paper attempts to theoretically combine concepts, such as chronotope (Bakhtin 1981), intertextuality (Fiske 2001), paratexts (Mittell 2014), fluid texts (Bryant 2013), and adaptation (Hutcheon 2006) in order to examine the dynamics of the branded text/context, in the origin stories of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase One, and consider how total branded entertainment is achieved. The reason why it is important to consider the intersection of brand entertainment, adaptation, and intertextuality, is that, although they primarily demonstrate a power struggle between producers and consumers, in which the former appear to dictate the way the latter consume and interpret, alternative ways of experiencing a text are revealed in total branded entertainment. Ultimately, it is not just a narrative experience but a brand experience.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 4 (2020): Popular Culture in a new Media Age & Other Essays
A Case for Joint Brand Management in Film and Television Promotion
Creators: name: Petridis, Sotiris
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2020

description: This article focuses on how fans/consumers are unofficially involved in the promotion of an audiovisual brand, through a unified management design, what I call “joint brand management.” The proposed term describes how both production companies and brand/fan communities simultaneously contribute to the development, establishment, and expansion of a brand through a combination of conventional brand management strategies and unofficial content created by fans/brand enthusiasts.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 4 (2020): Popular Culture in a new Media Age & Other Essays
title: DEPRECATED: THE DETERMINATION OF CRACK PROPAGATION RATES OF REFLECTION CRACKING THROUGH ASPHALT SURFACINGS
Creators: name: BROOKER, TIMOTHY NICHOLAS
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1986

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/855 on 06.20.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: A large proportion of the U.K. highway network constructed in the 1960's and 1970's contains lean concrete roadbase with bituminous surfacing. Pavements containing relatively high strength lean concrete have rarely required structural maintenance (thick overlay or reconstruction) but have required maintenance because of reflection cracking where the surfacing cracks above cracks in the lean concrete. The time of appearance of this cracking is very variable (2-20 years). Field observations indicate that roadbase transverse crack spacings are often greater than 5m. Reflection cracking at these long spacings can be caused by thermal stresses. This project identifies conditions under which thermal reflection cracking will occur and develops a predictive model that allows estimation of the combined effect of thermal and traffic stresses. Finite element analyses indicate that initial crack development is likely to be caused by thermal stresses and final cracking will be assisted by traffic stresses. A temperature model has been developed to determine roadbase daily temperature range and surfacing temperature on a mean monthly basis. Thermal reflection cracking is considered to result from daily cycle fatigue rather than an extreme low temperature mechanism. A test rig has been developed to apply cyclic crack opening movements and simulative tests have been accelerated to 0.1Hz by using a "bitumen stiffness", fatigue criterion. Finite element results, displacements recorded during tests and tensile creep tests to determine mix stiffness, enable dc/dN and K1 values and material constants (A, n) to be determined. This fracture mechanics interpretation of test results serves as the basis of the predictive model for thermal reflection cracking that is consistent with observations from an untrafficked road. The combined estimate of thermal and traffic stresses cannot however explain reflection cracking at <5m spacings. This cracking apparently initiates at the surface and is probably influenced by other mechanisms.
Baroque and Rococo Art
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190102 Art History
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: Art
subject: 190502 Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting)
subject: 130201 Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This paper was submitted for assessment in 1995 as part of my studies at Edith Cowan University, Bunbury Campus as part of the Associate Degree in Visual & Performing Arts. I attended this full-time course between February 1995 and December 1995 all as part of the greater Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts. My lecturer at the time for this unit was Geoff Lummis, master ceramicist and all round great person.
THE IMPORTANCE OF COLCHICINE IN MANAGING SKIN CANCER CELLS
Creators: name: Allaev, Otabek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide, affecting millions of people annually. It is divided into two main categories: melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers (such as basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma). The high incidence of skin cancer, along with rising cases due to increased UV exposure, has prompted the need for more effective treatments. At the core of colchicine's anticancer effect is its inhibition of microtubule dynamics, leading to the disruption of mitosis in rapidly dividing cancer cells. Beyond microtubule inhibition, colchicine has also been shown to induce apoptosis through several pathways, including activation of caspases, inhibition of the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein, and regulation of p53. Additionally, colchicine disrupts the tumor vasculature by inhibiting endothelial cell function, thus impairing tumor angiogenesis
Exploring the Educational Potentials of Language Learning with Netflix Tool: An Eye-Tracking Study
Creators: name: Gouleti, Aikaterini
name: Dimitriadis, Giorgos
name: Kokonis, Michalis
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2020

description: Digitization has revolutionized the industry of home entertainment services, enhancing the audience’s viewing experience and offering an abundance of choices within a new intercultural and multilingual reality. This pluralistic environment is a yet uncharted terrain of resources that could be exploited while popular culture and school curricula reach a decisive juncture. Evaluating the potentials of using new media learning tools, developed in line with the expansion of Over-the-top media services, has underpinned the objectives of this research. The analysis of eye movement data depicts the viewing patterns on three versions of the same film extract via Netflix streaming service. The first was screened with standard interlingual subtitling and the other two were viewed via Language Learning with Netflix (LLN) platform, a newly launched tool which allows the simultaneous, dual presentation of both the original dialogue and its translation. This paper aims to explore the proliferation of accessible options among different modes of audiovisual language transfer within an online participatory environment. In the emergent new media culture, the educational potentials of bilingual subtitling can challenge well-established borderlines and habit formations of viewership.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 4 (2020): Popular Culture in a new Media Age & Other Essays
Generalized Binomial Probability Distributions attached to Landau levels on the Riemann sphere
Creators: name: Ghanmi, A.
name: Hafoud, A.
name: Mouayn, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A family of generalized binomial probability distributions attached to Landau levels on the Riemann sphere is introduced by constructing a kind of generalized coherent states. Their main statistical parameters are obtained explicitly. As application, photon number statistics related to coherent states under consideration are discussed.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure. This is a revised and improved exposition. Typos corrected and references added
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name: Hunter, Catherine
name: Kidder, Beth
name: Robinson, Temple
name: Harris, Cynthia
name: Jones, Carrie
name: Green, Leon
name: Rogers, Brant
name: Smith, Eric
name: Mandal, Prabir
name: Reams, Renee
name: Cavicchia, Philip
name: Jordan, Melissa
name: Burness, Laura
name: Carlson, Todd
name: Chandran, Haneesh
name: Assiaidi, Ahmed
name: Hebert-Solares, Michele
name: McCain, Lance
name: Mitchell, Susan
name: Robinson, Patricia
name: Shrivalle, Katelynn
name: Smith, Steven
name: Durant, TaWanda
name: Eden, Joni
name: Joyce, Jeffrey
name: McDonnell, Grant
name: O'Neal, Donna
name: Carretta, Henry
name: Martinez, Joel
name: Moya, Keiser
name: Paul, Ludmilla
name: Quintana, Carlos
name: Frase, Alison
name: DeLeon, Veronica
name: Desrouleaux, Dorice
name: McCafferty, Jennifer
name: Moy, Pedro
name: Perez, Michael
name: Reddy, Raj
name: Sanchez, Maylee
name: Salyakina, Daria
name: Senior, Jerome
name: Taylor, Thomas
name: Nadglowski, Joseph
name: Candelario, Jorge L.
name: Mohr, Deanna
name: Petrone, Matt
name: Ramirez, Gabriela
name: Urbina, Zaida
name: Viera, Adael
name: Walker, Kathleen
name: Barfiled, Chris
name: Blair, Cynthia
name: Herman, Kristin
name: Ladle, Devin
name: Thomas, Richard
name: Watson, Dean
name: Baralt, Claire
name: Bell, Debora J
name: Bian, Jiang
name: Bottini, Tina
name: Boyd, Erica L
name: Byrne, Barry J
name: Carek, Peter J
name: Cottler, Linda B
name: Deason, Dick
name: DeHoff, Rhonda Marsha
name: Enani, Mahmoud
name: Evans, Christy M
name: Frening, Debbie
name: JR, Thomas J George,
name: Gramig, Lavina L
name: Gutter, Michael S
name: Handberg, Eileen Mary
name: Hogan, William
name: Ilavala, Neeharika
name: Janicke, David
name: Jones, Ross
name: Krieger, Janice
name: Lepanto, Rachel L
name: Lipori, Gigi
name: Loiacono, Alex
name: Magoc, Tanja
name: Galvan-Miyoshi, Yankuic
name: Manini, Lizabeth M
name: Markham, Merry Jennifer
name: Shaw, Katie
name: McMichael, Barbara C
name: Millay, Tamara Ann
name: Nelson, David R
name: Pepine, Carl J
name: Ranka, Deepa
name: Rodriguez, Lylly F
name: Schmidt, Erik
name: Shenkman, Elizabeth Ann
name: Smith, Myra
name: Vogtle, Candice
name: Weaver, Michael
name: White, Sonya
name: Xu, Howard
name: Bassols-Marin, Carrie
name: Bookman, Richard
name: Carrasquillo, Olveen
name: Dominguez, Eliana
name: Giobio, Marie
name: Jayaweera, Dushyantha
name: Dominguez, Sheela
name: Puram, Deepthi
name: Ransford, Daru
name: Taghioff, Peyman
name: Tsinoremas, Nick
name: Anderson, Matthew
name: Brownlee, William
name: Badal, Michael
name: Patel, Nishit
name: Morris, Sherry
name: Clifford, Gari
name: Deshpande, Nita
name: Kamaleswaran, Rishi
name: Obertone, Tracy
name: Patzer, Rachel
name: Robichaux, Chad
name: Teunis, Larissa
name: Wyatt, Matthew
name: Womack, Jason
name: Guzman, Alfredo
name: Burkholder, Greer
name: Willig, James
name: Mugavero, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health surveillance

description: OneFlorida certified database as of 01/09/2023. Contains data from 01/01/2012 through 07/31/2022.
Observational Evidence Against Long-Lived Spiral Arms in Galaxies
Creators: name: Foyle, Kelly
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Dobbs, Clare
name: Leroy, Adam
name: Walter, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test whether the spiral patterns apparent in many large disk galaxies should be thought of as dynamical features that are stationary in a co-rotating frame for > t_{dyn}, as implied by the density wave approach for explaining spiral arms. If such spiral arms have enhanced star formation (SF), observational tracers for different stages of the SF sequence should show a spatial ordering, from up-stream to downstream in the corotating frame: dense HI, CO, tracing molecular hydrogen gas, 24 micron emission tracing enshrouded SF and UV emission tracing unobscured young stars. We argue that such a spatial ordering should be reflected in the angular cross-correlation (CC, in polar coordinates) using all azimuthal positions among pairs of these tracers; the peak of the CC should be offset from zero, in different directions inside and outside the corotation radius. Recent spiral SF simulations by Dobbs & Pringle, show explicitly that for the case of a stationary spiral arm potential such angular offsets between gas and young stars of differing ages should be observable as cross-correlation offsets. We calculate the angular cross-correlations for different observational SF sequence tracers in 12 nearby spiral galaxies, drawing on a data set with high quality maps of the neutral gas HI, THINGS), molecular gas (CO, HERACLES) along with 24 micron emission (Spitzer, SINGS); we include FUV images (GALEX) and 3.6 $μ$m emission (Spitzer, IRAC) for some galaxies, tracing aging stars and longer timescales. In none of the resulting tracer cross-correlations for this sample do we find systematic angular offsets, which would be expected for a stationary dynamical spiral pattern of well-defined pattern speed. This result indicates that spiral density waves in their simplest form are not an important aspect of explaining spirals in large disk galaxies.
description: 13 pages, 16 figures
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title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Development of program filesto support a virtual laboratory workfor the study of microcontrollers of the STM32 family
Creators: name: ÐÐ½ÐµÑÐ¸Ð½, ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¸ÑÐ°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2021
Subjects: STM32
Cortex-M3
Proteus
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UART
CAD
microcontroller
virtual laboratory work
ADC
LCD

description: ÐÐ°Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ²ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð° ÑÐ°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐºÐµ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð³ÑÐ°Ð¼Ð¼Ð½ÑÑ ÑÑÐµÐ´ÑÑÐ² Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð²Ð¸ÑÑÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð»Ð°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ°ÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¿ÑÐ°ÐºÑÐ¸ÐºÑÐ¼Ð°. ÐÑÐ°ÐºÑÐ¸ÐºÑÐ¼ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½ ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ»Ð°Ð¼Ð¸ Ð»Ð°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ°ÑÐ¾ÑÐ½ÑÑ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾Ñ, ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐµ Ð¾ÑÐ²Ð°ÑÑÐ²Ð°ÑÑ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½ÑÐµ ÑÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð¸Ð·ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ Ñ Ð¼Ð¸ÐºÑÐ¾ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÐ¾Ð»Ð»ÐµÑÐ¾Ð¼: ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ñ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÐ°Ð¼Ð¸ Ð¼Ð¸ÐºÑÐ¾ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÐ¾Ð»Ð»ÐµÑÐ°; ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ñ ÑÐ°Ð¹Ð¼ÐµÑÐ°Ð¼Ð¸-ÑÑÐµÑÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°Ð¼Ð¸ Ð¸ Ð¿ÑÐµÑÑÐ²Ð°Ð½Ð¸ÑÐ¼Ð¸ Ð¼Ð¸ÐºÑÐ¾ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÐ¾Ð»Ð»ÐµÑÐ°; Ð¾Ð±Ð¼ÐµÐ½ Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½ÑÐ¼Ð¸ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÐµÐ´ÑÑÐ²Ð¾Ð¼ Ð¸Ð½ÑÐµÑÑÐµÐ¹ÑÐ° UART. ÐÐ·Ð°Ð¸Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ¹ÑÑÐ²Ð¸Ðµ Ñ Ð²Ð¸ÑÑÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½ÑÐ¼ ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð´Ð¾Ð¼ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð¸ÑÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¸Ñ Ð² Ð¡ÐÐÐ  Proteus. ÐÑÐ¾Ð³ÑÐ°Ð¼Ð¼Ð½ÑÐ¹ ÐºÐ¾Ð´ ÑÐµÐ°Ð»Ð¸Ð·ÑÐµÑÑÑ Ð² ÑÑÐµÐ´Ðµ STM32CubeIDE.
description: This work is devoted to the development of software tools for virtual laboratory practice. The workshop is represented by three cycles of laboratory work, which cover the main topics of study how to work with a microcontroller: work with microcontroller ports; work with timers-counters and microcontroller interrupts; data exchange via the UART interface. Interaction with the virtual bench takes place in the Proteus CAD system. The program code is implemented in the STM32CubeIDE environment.
Multimodal Literature in the Age of Covid-19
Creators: name: Mantzaris, Thomas
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2020

description: Multimodal literary works typically feature an array of verbal and non-verbal elements that operate collaboratively and, in addition to the materiality of the print book medium, create unique narrative experiences. The recent developments in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic have significantly impacted the availability of multimodal works and their access by readers and scholars. While institutions have responded to the changing environment with a surge of digital online material, experiencing multimodal literary works in digital format, when available, can compromise several facets of the reading experience. The complex physical format as well as the (occasionally) limited print run of such works makes libraries and other institutions reluctant to scan and disseminate them for public access.This article examines the contemporary challenges that multimodal print-based works are currently facing in relation to their distinctive composition and print run, suggesting that digital and audio formats can be partially effective when considered at the production stage of these literary works (rather than at earlier stages during the creative process). Moreover, the prominence of physicality in the narrative experience of multimodal literary works leads to a reconsideration of broader readerly experiences in the age of Covid-19 developments.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 4 (2020): Popular Culture in a new Media Age & Other Essays
Intercropping grain peas with barley
Creators: name: Klaiss, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: DiverIMPACTSPA
Crop-specific measure
Intercropping

description: Problem
 Grain peas are a valuable feed crop containing around 20% crude protein. Cultivated as pure crop, grain peas are prone to lodging which often leads to late weed infestation, soil contaminated grains and yield loss. Solution
 The cultivation of half-leafless grain peas and barley prevents lodging and quality/yield loss. After several years of trials in Switzerland the intercropping of grain peas and barley became a standard to cultivate grain peas.
Impact of conditional and unconditional cash transfers on health outcomes and use of health services in humanitarian settings: a mixed-methods systematic review.
Creators: name: Van Daalen, Kim
name: Dada, Sara
name: James, Rosemary
name: Ashworth, Henry Charles
name: Khorsand, Parnian
name: Lim, Jiewon
name: Mooney, Ciaran
name: Khankan, Yasmeen
name: Essar, Mohammad Yasir
name: Kuhn, Isla
name: Juillard, Helene
name: Blanchet, Karl
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Original research
1506
child health
mental health & psychiatry
nutrition
public health
systematic review

description: BACKGROUND: Cash transfers, payments provided by formal or informal institutions to recipients, are increasingly used in emergencies. While increasing autonomy and being supportive of local economies, cash transfers are a cost-effective method in some settings to cover basic needs and extend benefits of limited humanitarian aid budgets. Yet, the extent to which cash transfers impact health in humanitarian settings remains largely unexplored. This systematic review evaluates the evidence on the effect of cash transfers on health outcomes and health service utilisation in humanitarian contexts. METHODS: Studies eligible for inclusion were peer reviewed (quantitative,qualitative and mixed-methods). Nine databases (PubMed, EMBAS, Medline, CINAHL, Global Health, Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, SciELO and LiLACS) were searched without language and without a lower bound time restriction through 24 February 2021. The search was updated to include articles published through 8 December 2021. Data were extracted using a piloted extraction tool and quality was assessed using The Joanna Briggs Critical Appraisal Tool. Due to heterogeneity in study designs and outcomes, results were synthesised narratively and no meta-analysis was performed. RESULTS: 30 673 records were identified. After removing duplicates, 17 715 were double screened by abstract and title, and 201 in full text. Twenty-three articles from 16 countries were included reporting on nutrition outcomes, psychosocial and mental health, general/subjective health and well-being, acute illness (eg, diarrhoea, respiratory infection), diabetes control (eg, blood glucose self-monitoring, haemoglobin A1C levels) and gender-based violence. Nineteen studies reported some positive impacts on various health outcomes and use of health services, 11 reported no statistically significant impact on outcomes assessed and 4 reported potential negative impacts on health outcomes. DISCUSSION: Although there is evidence to suggest a positive relationship between cash transfers and health outcomes in humanitarian settings, high-quality empirical evidence, that is methodologically robust, investigates a range of humanitarian settings and is conducted over longer time periods is needed. This should consider factors influencing programme implementation and the differential impact of cash transfers designed to improve health versus multipurpose cash transfers. PROSPERO REGISTRATION NUMBER: CRD42021237275.
title: The continuous flight from wonder : an ecocritical analysis of the tensions between natural history and modern science in Andrea Barrett's fiction ; How muskrat made the world and other stories
Creators: name: McGuigan, Keri
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02wn5qz54
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015

description: This thesis comprises a critical component, The Continuous Flight From Wonder: An Ecocritical Analysis of Tensions Between Natural History and Modern Science in Andrea Barrett’s Fiction, and a creative component, How Muskrat Made the World and Other Stories. These two pieces are connected by their common theme of characters defining their place in the world through their relationship with nature. More specifically, both seek to explore how knowledge of and interactions with the nonhuman natural world play a role in the characters’ view of self. The critical component looks at the way in which the tension between natural history and modern science in Barrett’s work affects the characters’ troubled relationship with nature as they conceive it. The body of this piece is divided into four chapters, each corresponding to a recurring character archetype: The Naturalist, The Explorer, The Immigrant, and The Female Scientist. By analyzing the ways in which the restriction of these archetypes affect the characters’ relationship with the natural world, I will show that Barrett’s work provides a wealth of material for ecocritical analysis and should be considered alongside other works of ecocritical fiction. The creative component consists of seven short stories linked by the presence of human/animal interactions in each one and loosely by place. The characters in these eight stories try to make sense of the world through their relationship with animals. Sometimes this knowledge of animals comes through myth, science, and, most frequently, through domestic familiarity. The mirror that animal interactions holds up to the human characters often illuminates flaws and strengths, but inevitably defines what it is that makes them human by highlighting their affinity or aversion to the nonhuman natural world.
Survival and grade of the glioma prediction using transfer learning
Creators: name: Rubio, Santiago Valbuena
name: García-Ordás, María Teresa
name: Olivera, Oscar García-Olalla
name: Alaiz-Moretón, Héctor
name: González-Alonso, Maria-Inmaculada
name: Benítez-Andrades, José Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Glioblastoma is a highly malignant brain tumor with a life expectancy of only 3 to 6 months without treatment. Detecting and predicting its survival and grade accurately are crucial. This study introduces a novel approach using transfer learning techniques. Various pre-trained networks, including EfficientNet, ResNet, VGG16, and Inception, were tested through exhaustive optimization to identify the most suitable architecture. Transfer learning was applied to fine-tune these models on a glioblastoma image dataset, aiming to achieve two objectives: survival and tumor grade prediction.The experimental results show 65% accuracy in survival prediction, classifying patients into short, medium, or long survival categories. Additionally, the prediction of tumor grade achieved an accuracy of 97%, accurately differentiating low-grade gliomas (LGG) and high-grade gliomas (HGG). The success of the approach is attributed to the effectiveness of transfer learning, surpassing the current state-of-the-art methods. In conclusion, this study presents a promising method for predicting the survival and grade of glioblastoma. Transfer learning demonstrates its potential in enhancing prediction models, particularly in scenarios with limited large datasets. These findings hold promise for improving diagnostic and treatment approaches for glioblastoma patients.
Adolescent relational behaviour and the obesity pandemic: A descriptive study applying social network analysis and machine learning techniques
Creators: name: Marqués-Sánchez, Pilar
name: Martínez-Fernández, María Cristina
name: Benítez-Andrades, José Alberto
name: Quiroga-Sánchez, Enedina
name: García-Ordás, María Teresa
name: Arias-Ramos, Natalia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Aim: To study the existence of subgroups by exploring the similarities between the attributes of the nodes of the groups, in relation to diet and gender and, to analyse the connectivity between groups based on aspects of similarities between them through SNA and artificial intelligence techniques.
 Methods: 235 students from 5 different educational centres participate in this study between March and December 2015. Data analysis carried out is divided into two blocks: social network analysis and unsupervised machine learning techniques. As for the social network analysis, the Girvan-Newman technique was applied to find the best number of cohesive groups within each of the friendship networks of the different classes analysed.
 Results: After applying Girvan-Newman in the three classes, the best division into clusters was respectively 2 for classroom A, 7 for classroom B and 6 for classroom C. There are significant differences between the groups and the gender and diet variables. After applying K-means using population diet as an input variable, a K-means clustering of 2 clusters for class A, 3 clusters for class B and 3 clusters for class C is obtained.
 Conclusion: Adolescents form subgroups within their classrooms. Subgroup cohesion is defined by the fact that nodes share similarities in aspects that influence obesity, they share attributes related to food quality and gender. The concept of homophily, related to SNA, justifies our results. Artificial intelligence techniques together with the application of the Girvan-Newman provide robustness to the structural analysis of similarities and cohesion between subgroups.