cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Picture perfect?: a comparative-historical content analysis of women in Super Bowl commercials
Creators: name: Gary, Robin Marie
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: This project utilizes qualitative and quantitative content analysis to examine images of women in commercials aired during the NFL Super Bowl over the last 25 years for changes in their portrayals over time and to identify the dominant gender and racial/ethnic stereotypes in women's depictions. I hypothesize increasing instances of convergence -- a shift in the appearance of black women from an African-American phenotype to women who appear racially ambiguous, and replacement -- black men paired with non-black women or depicted as the only black individual in a multiracial group -- in current media images. I found the dominant images of women have not substantively changed over the past 25 years and found evidence supporting my convergence and replacement hypotheses. I hope to expand the existing literature on gender and racial stereotyping in media and to lay a foundation for further research.
Research: Analysis of Transport Model that Approximates Decision Taker's Preferences
Creators: name: Vilisov, Valery
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Paper provides a method for solving the reverse Monge-Kantorovich transport problem (TP). It allows to accumulate positive decision-taking experience made by decision-taker in situations that can be presented in the form of TP. The initial data for the solution of the inverse TP is the information on orders, inventories and effective decisions take by decision-taker. The result of solving the inverse TP contains evaluations of the TPs payoff matrix elements. It can be used in new situations to select the solution corresponding to the preferences of the decision-taker. The method allows to gain decision-taker experience, so it can be used by others. The method allows to build the model of decision-taker preferences in a specific application area. The model can be updated regularly to ensure its relevance and adequacy to the decision-taker system of preferences. This model is adaptive to the current preferences of the decision taker.
Before Mycenae: Middle Helladic Domestic Architecture and the Foundations of Mycenaean Culture
Creators: name: Worsham, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: The domestic architecture of the Middle Bronze Age on the Greek mainland has been frequently overlooked in scholarship; where it is acknowledged, it is all too often dismissed because of its absence of monumentality and poor state of preservation, seen as a product of the turbulence that is presumed to have rocked much of Greece in the wake of the fall of the relatively prosperous culture of the Early Bronze Age. However, a close examination of the houses of two important Middle Helladic sites - Lerna and Eutresis - reveals a previously unacknowledged degree of social complexity for the time period. Indeed, the houses seem to have served as the primary means of expressing social identity within the settlements of this era, serving as arenas for articulating kinship affiliation, wealth, and power. In many ways, then, the humble dwellings of the Middle Helladic predict the palaces of later Mycenaean culture.
title: Spontaneous ignition
Creators: name: Tsuchiya, Y.
name: Sumi, K.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Combustion
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0410
subject: Combustion
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0410
subject: ignition
subject: enflammer
subject: self combustibility
subject: auto combustibilité
subject: flammability tests
subject: essais d'inflammabilité
subject: dangerous materials
subject: matériaux dangereux

description: Spontaneous ignition, a cause of unwanted fire, is a complex phenomenon of combustible material ignited by its own heat of reaction without external heat or other source of ignition. The purpose of this Digest is to outline the factors responsible for spontaneous heating and ignition and the laboratory methods available for studying the problem. A list of materials with a tendency towards spontaneous ignition is included.
Photoluminescence from voids created by femtosecond laser pulses inside cubic-BN
Creators: name: Buividas, R.
name: Aharonovich, I.
name: Seniutinas, G.
name: Wang, X. W.
name: Rapp, L.
name: Rode, A. V.
name: Taniguchi, T.
name: Juodkazis, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoluminescence (PL) from femtosecond laser modified regions inside cubic-boron nitride (c-BN) was measured under UV and visible light excitation. Bright PL at the red spectral range was observed, with a typical excited state lifetime of $\sim 4$~ns. Sharp emission lines are consistent with PL of intrinsic vibronic defects linked to the nitrogen vacancy formation (via Frenkel pair) observed earlier in high energy electron irradiated and ion-implanted c-BN. These, formerly known as the radiation centers, RC1, RC2, and RC3 have been identified at the locus of the voids formed by single fs-laser pulse. The method is promising to engineer color centers in c-BN for photonic applications.
description: 4 figures
Why Women Own Less Housing Assets in China? The Role of Intergenerational Transfers
Creators: name: Deng, Weijing
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: After three decades of housing reform in China, housing assets constitute a sizable share of family wealth but are distributed unevenly, as registered homeowners are predominantly male. This is partly because males generally have higher incomes than females and can therefore contribute more to the financing, but also because males receive more intergenerational transfers. On the basis of 31 in-depth interviews from Chongqing, this article seeks to answer two questions: 1) How and why does the gender of the recipient affect the negotiation of intergenerational transfers? and 2)What are young women’s possibilities to accumulate housing assets? The research findings show that young women either ask their parents for help to secure housing assets before marriage or they attempt to co-own a home with their husbands after marriage. Women who do not succeed in either of these strategies do not accumulate housing assets and thereby risk their rights to the home if their marriage is dissolved.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 22 (2018): Young People's Housing Opportunity in Post-reform China
A closer view of the IGR J11014-6103 outflows
Creators: name: Pavan, L.
name: Pühlhofer, G.
name: Bordas, P.
name: Audard, M.
name: Balbo, M.
name: Bozzo, E.
name: Eckert, D.
name: Ferrigno, C.
name: Filipović, M. D.
name: Verdugo, M.
name: Walter, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complex X-ray system IGR J11014-6103 (a.k.a. the Lighthouse nebula) is composed of a bow-shock pulsar wind nebula (PWN) as well as large-scale jet-like features, all launched by IGR J11014-6103 which is moving supersonically in the interstellar medium. Previous observations suggested that the jet features stem from a ballistic jet of relativistic particles. In order to confirm the nature of the jet and the marginally detected counter-jet, we obtained a new deep 250 ks Chandra observation of the Lighthouse nebula. We performed detailed spatial and spectral analysis of all X-ray components of the system. The X-ray PWN is now better resolved and shows a clear bi-modal morphology. The overall helical pattern of the main jet is confirmed. However, there are large deviations from a simple helical model at small and large scales. Significant extended emission is now detected, encompassing the main jet all along its length. The brightness dip of the main jet at ~50" distance from the pulsar is confirmed, the extended emission however prevents conclusions about the coherence at this position of the jet. The counter-jet is now detected at high statistical significance. In addition, we found two small-scale "arcs" departing from the pulsar towards the jets. We also looked for possible bow-shock emission in front of the pulsar, with a short VLT/FORS2 H-alpha observation. No clear emission is found, most likely because of contamination from a diffuse surrounding nebulosity. The results of our X-ray analysis show that current expectations from a ballistic nature of the jets can explain satisfactorily some of the observational evidences but cannot fully reproduce the observations. The alternative scenario (diffusion of particles along preexisting magnetic field lines in the surrounding medium) however also continues to suffer from conflicts with the observations.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to A&A
Reciprocity in Intergenerational Transfer of Housing Assets: A case study in Chongqing, China
Creators: name: Deng, Weijing
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: Worldwide, housing is increasingly unaffordable for young people, many of whom rely on intergenerational transfer of assets to enter home ownership. The explanation lies in two macro-structural shifts: the retrenchment of the welfare state and the rise of the home-owning society. A case study in Chongqing, China suggests an answer to the following research question: How does the expectation of reciprocity affect housingasset intergenerational transfer (HIT) in contemporary China where the welfare system is not equally distributed among urban and rural residents? Data derived from 31 in-depth interviews with young adults and parents show that HIT is perceived as an exchange of financial support in the present for generalized support in the future. Families with a rural migration background, who tend to have less access to the public welfare system due to China’s dual hukou system, are the most eager to invest in HIT and expect the most reciprocity.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 22 (2018): Young People's Housing Opportunity in Post-reform China
Interfacing Femininities: Performance, Critique, and the Events of Photography in Amalia Ulman's Excellences & Perfections
Creators: name: Henze, Kimberley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Over the course of four months, Amalia Ulman performed “types” of femininity through Instagram’s vernacular of selfies, fashion shots, food porn, and cheeky quotes in an effort to challenge socially constructed and bound ideas of gender. Ulman’s adopted personas, all formulaic to social media spheres, developed over three consecutive episodes: the “artsy-tumblr girl,” the “sugar baby,” and the “life goddess.” In this thesis, I critically analyze Ulman’s images to illuminate the hegemonic norms of femininity with which she is dealing, explore the meanings of the work that were born and are still-changing on the networked interface, and examine how those meanings shift when the performance is moved into static form on a gallery wall. I ultimately argue that, through its richest form on the interface, Excellences & Perfections destabilizes and critiques not only normative representations of women but also the spaces in which these representations are regularly reinforced, online and off.
title: Defaillance des parements de briques sur les immeubles de grande hauteur
Creators: name: Plewes, W. G.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Brick
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0730
subject: Briques
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0730
subject: brick construction
subject: construction en brique
subject: building failures
subject: délabrement
subject: high rise buildings
subject: construction elèvée
subject: buckling
subject: flambement
subject: spallings
subject: épaufrure

description: La flambage et l'effritement des placages et des parements de briques des murs creux des immeubles de grande hauteur, sont attibuables aux mouvements des immeubles. Dans certains cas, des pans entiers de facades de parement se sont écroulés. Le présent bulletin traite des caractéristiques des défaillances observées sur nombre de bâtiments et commente certains détails de construction qui ont tendance à créer des problèmes.
A possible link between the power spectrum of interstellar filaments and the origin of the prestellar core mass function
Creators: name: Roy, A.
name: Andre', Ph.
name: Arzoumanian, D.
name: Peretto, N.
name: Palmeirim, P.
name: Konyves, V.
name: Schneider, N.
name: Benedettini, M.
name: Di Francesco, J.
name: Elia, D.
name: Hill, T.
name: Ladjelate, B.
name: Louvet, F.
name: Motte, F.
name: Pezzuto, S.
name: Schisano, E.
name: Shimajiri, Y.
name: Spinoglio, L.
name: Ward-Thompson, D.
name: White, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two major features of the prestellar CMF are: 1) a broad peak below 1 Msun, presumably corresponding to a mean gravitational fragmentation scale, and 2) a characteristic power-law slope, very similar to the Salpeter slope of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) at the high-mass end. While recent Herschel observations have shown that the peak of the prestellar CMF is close to the thermal Jeans mass in marginally supercritical filaments, the origin of the power-law tail of the CMF/IMF at the high-mass end is less clear. Inutsuka (2001) proposed a theoretical scenario in which the origin of the power-law tail can be understood as resulting from the growth of an initial spectrum of density perturbations seeded along the long axis of filaments by interstellar turbulence. Here, we report the statistical properties of the line-mass fluctuations of filaments in nearby molecular clouds observed with Herschel using a 1-D power spectrum analysis. The observed filament power spectra were fitted by a power-law function $(P_{true}(s) \propto s^α)$ after removing the effect of beam convolution at small scales. A Gaussian-like distribution of power-spectrum slopes was found centered at -1.6, close to that of the one-dimensional velocity power spectrum generated by subsonic Kolomogorov turbulence (-1.67). An empirical correlation, $P^{0.5}(s_0) \propto ^{1.4 \pm 0.1} $, was also found between the amplitude of each filament power spectrum $P(s_0)$ and the mean column density along the filament $$. Finally, the dispersion of line-mass fluctuations along each filament $σ_{\rm M_{line}}$ was found to scale with the physical length $L$ of the filament, roughly as $σ_{M_{line}} \propto L^{0.7}$. Overall, our results are consistent with the suggestion that the bulk of the CMF/IMF results from the gravitational fragmentation of filaments.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics journal
Sochi 2014: ecology, Sochi-ites 0 - Russian civil society 1?
Creators: name: Fors, Nydia M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The Olympics are often framed as a catalyst for everything from urban (re)development to the embracing of democratic values. This paper aims to show that in a hybrid regime like Russia's, the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi could be a catalyst for civil society development. In the Russian manifestation of a hybrid, the state is constantly reviving old methods and learning new ones to keep the opposition and civil society in check while trying to maintain the illusion of democracy. In this context, Russian civil society is also learning new methods of dealing with the state and strengthening itself in the process. I argue that thanks to the acute environmental and housing issues Olympic preparations bring to the fore, coupled with the authorities' greater than usual abuse of power due to tight deadlines and international image upkeep, the Sochi Games are already providing increased opportunities for local civil society development.
Computational Modelling of Atherosclerosis
Creators: name: Parton, Andrew
name: McGilligan, Victoria
name: OKane, Maurice
name: Baldrick, Francina R
name: Watterson, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Atherosclerosis is one of the principle pathologies of cardiovascular disease with blood cholesterol a significant risk factor. The World Health Organisation estimates that approximately 2.5 million deaths occur annually due to the risk from elevated cholesterol with 39% of adults worldwide at future risk. Atherosclerosis emerges from the combination of many dynamical factors, including haemodynamics, endothelial damage, innate immunity and sterol biochemistry. Despite its significance to public health, the dynamics that drive atherosclerosis remain poorly understood. As a disease that depends on multiple factors operating on different length scales, the natural framework to apply to atherosclerosis is mathematical and computational modelling. A computational model provides an integrated description of the disease and serves as an in silico experimental system from which we can learn about the disease and develop therapeutic hypotheses. Although the work completed in this area to-date has been limited, there are clear signs that interest is growing and that a nascent field is establishing itself. This paper discusses the current state of modelling in this area, bringing together many recent results for the first time. We review the work that has been done, discuss its scope and highlight the gaps in our understanding that could yield future opportunities.
description: in Briefings in Bioinformatics (2015)
title: Wind forces on mobile homes
Creators: name: Schriever, W. R.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Air flow/Wind pressure
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0344
subject: Surcharges dues au vent/écoulement d'air
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0344
subject: mobile homes
subject: maison mobile
subject: wind loads
subject: surcharges de vent
subject: anchoring
subject: ancrage (procédé)

description: High losses of mobile homes in windstorms have become a matter of considerable concern to owners, insurance companies and building code authorities. The purpose of this Digest is to assess the nature of the wind loss problem, to describe the effects of the wind forces on a typical mobile home and to suggest methods of providing greater safety by anchoring mobile homes to the ground.
Assessment of transparent and open science practices in sleep and chronobiology research journals
Creators: name: Spitschan, Manuel
name: Schmidt, Marlene
name: Blume, Christine
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Communication
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Library and Information Science
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Publishing
subject: Scholarly Publishing
subject: Sleep Medicine

description: Pre-registration
title: Fondations dans les sols sujets à des gonflements ou à retraits
Creators: name: Hamilton, J. J.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Basements and foundations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: Sous-sol et fondations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: subsoils
subject: sous sol (terre)
subject: clay soils
subject: sol argileux
subject: swelling
subject: gonflement (altération)
subject: shrinkage
subject: retrait (altération)
subject: foundations
subject: fondation (ouvrage)

description: Les sous-sols en argile à volume inconstant constituent le risque naturel le plus coûteux dans le cas des bâtiments à fondations superficielles au Canada et aux États-Unis. Dans les provinces des Prairies, plus d'un million de Canadiens vivent dans des agglomérations où le terrain présente des risques de dilatation très élevés. Dans les Maritimes ou dans les régions côtières, la proportion d'habitations reposant sur de l'argile à risques de contraction élevés est encore plus grande. Cette publication présente de nouveaux concepts dans le domaine et traite du choix de types appropriés de fondations.
Model Independent Approach to the Single Photoelectron Calibration of Photomultiplier Tubes
Creators: name: Saldanha, R.
name: Grandi, L.
name: Guardincerri, Y.
name: Wester, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The accurate calibration of photomultiplier tubes is critical in a wide variety of applications for which it is necessary to know the absolute number of detected photons or precisely determine the resolution of the signal. Conventional calibration methods rely on fitting the photomultiplier response to a low intensity light source with analytical approximations to the single photoelectron distribution. We show that this approach often leads to biased estimates due to an inability to model the full distribution accurately, especially at low charge values. We present a simple statistical method to extract the relevant single photoelectron calibration parameters (first two central moments) without making any assumptions about the underlying single photoelectron distribution. We illustrate the use of this method through the calibration of a Hamamatsu R11410 photomultiplier tube and study the accuracy and precision of the method using Monte Carlo simulations. The method is found to have significantly reduced bias compared to conventional methods and works under a wide range of light intensities, making it suitable for the simultaneous calibration of large arrays of photomultiplier tubes where uniform illumination may not be possible.
description: 18 pages, 14 figures
Molecular assessment of endosseous implant adherent cellular phenotypes in man
Creators: name: Bryington, Matthew Scott
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: This investigation considered the role of implant surface roughness on activation of osteoblastic differentiation of uncommitted mesenchymal stem cells in humans. The aim of this study was to examine the gene expression profiles from adherent cells on moderately roughened TiO2 grit-blasted (micron-scale topography) and hydrofluoric acid modified TiO2 grit-blasted (nano-scale topography) implants. Sixty cpTitanium implants were placed and allowed to integrate for 24 hours, 72 hours, and one week in 10 systemically healthy patients. These implants were retrieved and biochemical analyzed by RT-PCR for markers of osteoblastic differentiation. A complex array of gene changes representative of osteogenesis was observed at both implant surfaces. Compared to implants with micron-scale topography, nano-scale topography implants supported greater expression of RUNX-2(1.6 vs. 2.6-fold,p=0.18), Osterix(1.8 vs. 3.9-fold,p=0.04), BSP(2.7 vs. 4.6-fold, p=0.11) and OCN(1.6 vs. 3.2-fold,p=0.06) mRNAs indicating greater osteogenesis at 7 days in vivo. Further investigations using this model may elucidate important difference among subsets of patients who experience implant failure.
Self-Trapping of Diskoseismic Corrugation Modes in Neutron Star Spacetimes
Creators: name: Tsang, David
name: Pappas, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the effects of higher-order multipole contributions of rotating neutron star (NS) spacetimes on the propagation of corrugation (c-)modes within a thin accretion disk. We find that the Lense-Thirring precession frequency, which determines the propagation region of the low-frequency fundamental corrugation modes, can experience a turnover allowing for c-modes to become self-trapped for sufficiently high dimensionless spin $j$ and quadrupole rotational deformability $α$. If such self-trapping c-modes can be detected, e.g. through phase-resolved spectroscopy of the iron line for a high-spin low-mass accreting neutron star, this could potentially constrain the spin-induced NS quadrupole and the NS equation of state.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL
title: Office partitions: acoustical requirements for design and construction
Creators: name: Warnock, A. C. C.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Office acoustics
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0850
subject: Acoustique des bureaux
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0850
subject: partitions
subject: cloison
subject: sound insulating
subject: isolation acoustique
subject: acoustic properties
subject: propriétés acoustiques
subject: offices (rooms)
subject: bureau (salles)

description: This Digest discusses the general problem of design and construction of office partitions to control noise between offices. Some examples are given of practical installations for partitions, ceilings, doors and windows.
plan 2 - registration before analysis
Creators: name: Gantz, Noga
name: team, TAU
name: Eyal, Shir
name: Keshet, Tamar
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: זוהי הרשמה-מראש של תוכנית המחקר שלנו בקורס פסיכולוגיה ניסויית. תוכנית המחקר מופיעה בקובץ המצורף
Improved background rejection in neutrinoless double beta decay experiments using a magnetic field in a high pressure xenon TPC
Creators: name: Renner, J.
name: Cervera, A.
name: Hernando, J. A.
name: Imzaylov, A.
name: Monrabal, F.
name: Muñoz, J.
name: Nygren, D.
name: Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the application of an external magnetic field could lead to an improved background rejection in neutrinoless double-beta (0nbb) decay experiments using a high pressure xenon (HPXe) TPC. HPXe chambers are capable of imaging electron tracks, a feature that enhances the separation between signal events (the two electrons emitted in the 0nbb decay of 136Xe) and background events, arising chiefly from single electrons of kinetic energy compatible with the end-point of the 0nbb decay (Qbb ). Applying an external magnetic field of sufficiently high intensity (in the range of 0.5-1 Tesla for operating pressures in the range of 5-15 atmospheres) causes the electrons to produce helical tracks. Assuming the tracks can be properly reconstructed, the sign (direction) of curvature can be determined at several points along these tracks, and such information can be used to separate signal (0nbb) events containing two electrons producing a track with two different directions of curvature from background (single-electron) events producing a track that should spiral in a single direction. Due to electron multiple scattering, this strategy is not perfectly efficient on an event-by-event basis, but a statistical estimator can be constructed which can be used to reject background events by one order of magnitude at a moderate cost (approx. 30%) in signal efficiency. Combining this estimator with the excellent energy resolution and topological signature identification characteristic of the HPXe TPC, it is possible to reach a background rate of less than one count per ton-year of exposure. Such a low background rate is an essential feature of the next generation of 0nbb experiments, aiming to fully explore the inverse hierarchy of neutrino masses.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures
title: Non-destructive testing of concrete
Creators: name: Feldman, R. F.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Concrete
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: Béton
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: concrete (materials)
subject: béton (matériaux)
subject: mechanical properties
subject: propriété mécanique
subject: test procedures
subject: méthode d'essai
subject: physical properties
subject: propriétés physiques

description: Several non-destructive methods of assessing the strength of concrete in buildings have been developed. The purpose of this Digest is to describe these methods briefly, outlining their advantages and disadvantages.
Shaping The Spread Of Ideas: The Mechanics of Radicalization, Construction of Strategic Narratives, and Intrinsicness of Strategic Communication to Counter Radicalization Strategies
Creators: name: Brownlow, Walter Edward
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2013

description: This essay examines preventative counter radicalization efforts as a response to violent extremism in Islamic cultures. It argues for the prudence of a counter radicalization strategy and explores the means through which it be implemented most effectively. It emphasizes the accuracy and appropriateness of messaging when communicating with target audiences. The latter half of the essay attempts to clarify the concept of strategic communications and analyzes their role in the development and implementation of successful efforts to counter radical narratives and provide credible alternate narratives. A primary focus is the importance of a strategic communications framework to a) developing and maintaining policy cohesion - i.e. how communications affect the government networks that formulate and implement policies, and b) effective signaling and response to target audiences when constructing or countering narratives. During the course of its arguments, the essay examines the process of radicalization and analyzes recommended policy responses of Western powers and liberal democracies, specifically the United States.
The Low Energy Constants of $SU(2)$ Partially Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory from $N_{f}=2+1$ Domain Wall QCD
Creators: name: Boyle, P. A.
name: Christ, N. H.
name: Garron, N.
name: Jung, C.
name: Jüttner, A.
name: Kelly, C.
name: Mawhinney, R. D.
name: McGlynn, G.
name: Murphy, D. J.
name: Ohta, S.
name: Portelli, A.
name: Sachrajda, C. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed fits of the pseudoscalar masses and decay constants, from a variety of RBC-UKQCD domain wall fermion ensembles, to $SU(2)$ partially quenched chiral perturbation theory at next-to leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO). We report values for 9 NLO and 8 linearly independent combinations of NNLO partially quenched low energy constants, which we compare to other lattice and phenomenological determinations. We discuss the size of successive terms in the chiral expansion and use our large set of low energy constants to make predictions for mass splittings due to QCD isospin breaking effects and the S-wave $ππ$ scattering lengths. We conclude that, for the range of pseudoscalar masses explored in this work, $115~\mathrm{MeV} \lesssim m_{\rm PS} \lesssim 430~\mathrm{MeV}$, the NNLO $SU(2)$ expansion is quite robust and can fit lattice data with percent-scale accuracy.
title: Action du gel sur les fondations
Creators: name: Burn, K. N.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Basements and foundations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: Sous-sol et fondations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: frost
subject: gel (froid)
subject: foundations
subject: fondation (ouvrage)
subject: heave
subject: soulèvement
subject: building failures
subject: délabrement

description: Presque partout au Canada, le sol gèle durant les mois d' hiver à une profondeur qui varie entre quelques pouces, dans les régions tempérées, et plusieurs pieds, dans les régions plus froides. Cette condition peut provoquer le soulévement des bâtiments se trouvant dans la région visée ou à proximité de celle-ci. Elle peut entraîner des conséquences sérieuses dans les structures légères et causer de graves dommages aux grands immeubles. Cette publication décrit les causes du gel, les problèmes de construction qui en résultent et les mesures à prendre pour le contrôler.
Acoustically effective façades
Creators: name: Krimm, Jochen
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: The silhouettes of the great European metropolises are characterised by a high density of high-rise facades made of glass, metal or stone. On one hand this density stands for economic power and good employment values. On the other hand, the large sound-reflecting surfaces in the cities are responsible for an increase in sound pollution in their vicinity. They cause the most frequent inner-city sound source, traffic noise, to double in perceived intensity. Direct sound and reflected sound add up in the urban environment. This effect of sound level increase through reflection has been subject of acoustic research for some time. In architecture, however, the topic of noise reflection has been completely neglected. But it is exactly these concentration processes in the continuously growing metropolises that make architects face problems that they cannot solve with their own tools alone. For example, placing bedrooms in the quiet part of a building is only possible if there are quiet areas. But highly concentrated areas as a result of creating additional living space are often surrounded by 4 or more sound sources. Hereby, the noise originating from air traffic further aggravates the situation because this type of noise generally impacts the urban space from above. These developments require us to discuss the topic of the reflective properties of facades within the disciplines acoustics and architecture. The fundamental question was: Is it possible to develop a design strategy that can be employed by architecture firms, and that enables them to develop facades for a quieter city in challenging urban situations?
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 16 (2018): Acoustically effective façades
Brief an [Johann Jakob] Ott
Creators: name: Lambert, Johann Heinrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1763

description: von J[ohann] H[einrich] Lambert
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
description: Druck: Lambert, Johann Heinrich. - Joh. Heinrich Lamberts deutscher gelehrter Briefwechsel / herausg. von Joh. Bernoulli. - Berlin 1782, 2, S.188-190
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Sequence stratigraphy and stratigraphic architecture of the upper Mississippian lower Hinton Formation: Appalachian Basin, West Virginia, USA
Creators: name: Smith, Tyson
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Cyclothems are a characteristic feature of Pennsylvanian Appalachian basin stratigraphy. These high frequency transgressive-regressive cycles have been attributed to glacioeustatic fluctuation, but comparatively little work has been done until recent with regards to identification of similar cycles in the upper Mississippian despite the presence of continental ice sheets during that time. This study provides evidence for the presence of high frequency, transgressive-regressive cycles during the late Mississippian, similar to Pennsylvanian cyclothems. The eight trangressive-regressive episodes identified within the study interval occurred over a roughly 2.5 million year span in the late Mississippian. Assuming that these are cyclic in nature, they exhibit a 4th order periodicity of ~300 thousand years. The character of these cycles appears to be modulated by a 3rd order lowstand and transgressive trend. This study documents how multiple controls on relative sea level, which operate on different timescales, influence sedimentation and subsequently shape the sedimentary record.
title: Failure of brick facing on high-rise buildings
Creators: name: Plewes, W. G.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Brick
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0730
subject: Briques
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0730
subject: brick construction
subject: construction en brique
subject: building failures
subject: délabrement
subject: high rise buildings
subject: construction elèvée
subject: buckling
subject: flambement
subject: spallings
subject: épaufrure

description: Buckling and spalling of brick veneer and brick facing wythes of cavity walls on highrise buildings are attributable to building movements. In some instances the facing of whole panels has fallen off. It is the purpose of this Digest to discuss characteristics of failures observed in a number of buildings and to comment on particular details of the forms of construction that tend to contribute problems.
Brief an [Christian Friedrich] Stahlbaum
Creators: name: Lambert, Johann Heinrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1768

description: von J[ohann] H[einrich] Lambert
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
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Tunable damping, saturation magnetization, and exchange stiffness of half-Heusler NiMnSb thin films
Creators: name: Dürrenfeld, Philipp
name: Gerhard, Felicitas
name: Chico, Jonathan
name: Dumas, Randy K.
name: Ranjbar, Mojtaba
name: Bergman, Anders
name: Bergqvist, Lars
name: Delin, Anna
name: Gould, Charles
name: Molenkamp, Laurens W.
name: Åkerman, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The half-metallic half-Heusler alloy NiMnSb is a promising candidate for applications in spintronic devices due to its low magnetic damping and its rich anisotropies. Here we use ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) measurements and calculations from first principles to investigate how the composition of the epitaxially grown NiMnSb influences the magnetodynamic properties of saturation magnetization $M_S$, Gilbert damping $α$, and exchange stiffness $A$. $M_S$ and $A$ are shown to have a maximum for stoichiometric composition, while the Gilbert damping is minimum. We find excellent quantitative agreement between theory and experiment for $M_S$ and $α$. The calculated $A$ shows the same trend as the experimental data, but has a larger magnitude. Additionally to the unique in-plane anisotropy of the material, these tunabilities of the magnetodynamic properties can be taken advantage of when employing NiMnSb films in magnonic devices.
description: 3 figures
Theta-Beta Ratios, Age, and Individual Peak Alpha Power in MIDUS
Creators: name: Finley, Anna
name: Angus, Douglas
name: van Reekum, Carien
name: Schaefer, Stacey
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Other Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: aging
subject: beta
subject: EEG
subject: neuroscience
subject: psychophysiology
subject: social neuroscience
subject: theta
subject: theta-beta ratio

description: Theta-beta ratio (TBR) decreases with age and negatively predicts executive function, while theta increases with age and positively predicts executive function. This registration is specific to analyses of MIDUS2 initial baseline EEG data examining the role of theta and beta to age related differences in TBRs, and the potential influence of individual differences in peak alpha power to TBRs. UPDATE 06/01/2020: A math error was discovered in the description of how the TBR measures will be calculated. We will take the ratio of Theta and Beta power first, then log-normalize the subsequent ratio.
Dynamic Relationality: Embodiment, Identity, and Politics in Life Writing by Authors with Cerebral Palsy
Creators: name: Heyburn, Brian
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation explores how people with cerebral palsy (CP) represent their own experiences in life writing to create social change not only for themselves and others with CP, but for the larger disability community as well. I conduct critically engaged close readings of three first-person, book-length narratives by authors with CP who demonstrate an awareness of prevailing political power relations and dynamics of oppression as they relate to disability. I analyze Harilyn Rousso’s Don’t Call Me Inspirational (2013), Eli Clare’s Exile and Pride (1999), and Keah Brown’s The Pretty One (2019). My close readings lead to my assertion that the ways in which dominant social conditions act upon those who share a specific impairment type, in this case CP, may produce experiences and identities that are, paradoxically, both unique and shared. Through an understanding of this tension, I look at how these authors’ representations of their lived, embodied experiences of CP intersect with the other identities they inhabit and how their positionalities are connected by the presence of myriad, dynamic relationships (e.g., interpersonal, political, environmental). I contend that these relational qualities of their experiences inform their understanding of disability oppression and their thoughts on activism and social change, as reflected in their narratives’ content and formal elements. Ultimately, I argue that one’s impairment-specific location matters deeply to the ways in which disabled people experience and know the world, offering nuanced insights that can be incorporated into larger group efforts toward disability theorizing and organizing for social change.
Brief an J[ohann] Tob[ias] Mayer
Creators: name: Lambert, Johann Heinrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1772

description: von [Johann Heinrich Lambert]
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Juli 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
title: Foundations on swelling or shrinking subsoils
Creators: name: Hamilton, J. J.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Basements and foundations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: Sous-sol et fondations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: subsoils
subject: sous sol (terre)
subject: clay soils
subject: sol argileux
subject: swelling
subject: gonflement (altération)
subject: shrinkage
subject: retrait (altération)
subject: foundations
subject: fondation (ouvrage)

description: Volume-changing clay subsoils constitute the most costly natural hazard to buildings on shallow foundations in Canada and the United States. In the Prairie Provinces alone a million or more Canadians live in communities built on subsoils of very high potential expansion. In eastern and coastal regions even larger populations are situated on clays of high shrinkage potential. This Digest describes new concepts and details developed from a continuing study of the subject and discusses the selection of appropriate foundations.
The NuSTAR view of reflection and absorption in NGC 7582
Creators: name: Rivers, E.
name: Baloković, M.
name: Arévalo, P.
name: Bauer, F. E.
name: Boggs, S. E.
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Brightman, M.
name: Christensen, F. E.
name: Craig, W. W.
name: Gandhi, P.
name: Hailey, C. J.
name: Harrison, F.
name: Koss, M.
name: Ricci, C.
name: Stern, D.
name: Walton, D. J.
name: Zhang, W. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 7582 is a well-studied X-ray bright Seyfert 2 with moderately heavy ($N_{\text{H}}\sim10^{23}-10^{24}$~cm$^{-2}$), highly variable absorption and strong reflection spectral features. The spectral shape changed around the year 2000, dropping in observed flux and becoming much more highly absorbed. Two scenarios have been put forth to explain this spectral change: 1) the central X-ray source partially ``shut off'' around this time, decreasing in intrinsic luminosity, with a delayed decrease in reflection features due to the light-crossing time of the Compton-thick material or 2) the source became more heavily obscured, with only a portion of the power law continuum leaking through. NuSTAR observed NGC~7582 twice in 2012, two weeks apart, in order to quantify the reflection using high-quality data above 10 keV. We find that the most plausible scenario is that NGC 7582 has recently become more heavily absorbed by a patchy torus with a covering fraction of $\sim\,80-90\%$ and an equatorial column density of $\sim 3 \times10^{24}$ cm$^{-2}$. We find the need for an additional highly variable full-covering absorber with $N_{\text{H}}= 4-6 \times10^{23}$ cm$^{-2}$ in the line of sight, possibly associated with a hidden broad line region.
description: Accepted to ApJ, Nov 2015
Brief an [J. J.] Good
Creators: name: Lambert, Johann Heinrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1772

description: Zu einem mathematischen Problem
description: von [Johann Heinrich] Lambert
description: Bl. 204v: Anmerkungen von Johann III Bernoulli
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
description: Druck: Bernoulli, Johann (Hg.). - Joh. Heinrich Lamberts deutscher gelehrter Briefwechsel. - Berlin 1782, Bd.2: S.236-239
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The role of education in economic development in Ireland and Spain after EU integration
Creators: name: Masterson, Erin C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: In this paper I will examine the role of education in determining the progress of economic development in Ireland and Spain after their respective ascensions to the European Union. Some factors to be examined in this study are a comparison of each country’s economic state at the time of EU integration, the rate and shape of progress since EU integration, the general role of education in economic development, and the influence of the European Union on education policy. I will then examine the specific effects of education on economic development in both Ireland and Spain. A theoretical framework provided by Joseph Stiglitz is used as the rationale behind this study, as he explains the purpose of reforming the education system and creating ‘knowledge capital’ in order to prepare for economic change. Finally, some comparisons will be made between the two countries to discern some general trends between education policy and successful economic development.