cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The First Jet in the Universe: Protostellar Jets from the First Stars
Creators: name: Machida, Masahiro N.
name: Omukai, Kazuyuki
name: Matsumoto, Tomoaki
name: Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The protostellar jets driven by the formation of the first stars are studied by using MHD nested grid simulations. Starting from a slowly rotating spherical cloud of 5.1 times 10^4 Msun permeated by a uniform magnetic field, we follow the evolution from the central number density n = 10^3 cm^-3 to n simeq 10^23 cm^-3. We calculate four models that differ in initial magnetic field strengths and angular velocities. In all models, protostars of simeq 10^-3 Msun are formed at n simeq 10^22 cm^-3 in accordance with one-dimensional calculations. By this epoch, the magnetic flux density is amplified by 10 orders of magnitude from the initial value. Consequently, the formed protostar possesses the magnetic field of \sim 10^6 G that is much larger than the flux density of the present counterparts, reflecting the fact that the dissipation of a magnetic field is ineffective in primordial gas clouds. If the initial magnetic field B > 10^-9 (n/10^3 cm^-3)^2/3 G, the protostellar jet is launched and its velocities reaches \sim 70 km s^-1 by the time the protostellar mass becomes (4-6) times 10^-3 Msun, and a fraction (3-10%) of the accreting matter is blown off from the central region. Owing to the interaction of these ejecta with surrounding matter, expanding bow shocks are created at both heads of the jet. If this jet continues to sweep out the surrounding gas that otherwise accretes onto the central star or circumstellar disk, the final mass of the first star can be substantially reduced. In addition, dense post-shock regions behind the bow shocks are expected to promote the chemical reactions (formation of H_2 and HD), and this provides possible environments for subsequent low-mass star formation in the early universe.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, Submitted to ApJL, For high resolution figures see this http://www2.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~machidam/primordial/MS20707v1.pdf
Employing nucleon decay as a fingerprint of SUSY GUT models using \texttt{SusyTCProton}
Creators: name: Antusch, Stefan
name: Hohl, Christian
name: Susič, Vasja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the observation of nucleon decay would be a smoking gun of Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) in general, the ratios between the decay rates of the various channels carry rich information about the specific GUT model realization. To investigate this fingerprint of GUT models in the context of supersymmetric (SUSY) GUTs, we present the software tool \texttt{SusyTCProton}, which is an extension of the module \texttt{SusyTC} to be used with the \texttt{REAP} package. It allows to calculate nucleon decay rates from the relevant dimension five GUT operators specified at the GUT scale, including the full loop-dressing at the SUSY scale. As an application, we investigate the fingerprints of two example GUT toy models with different flavor structures, performing an MCMC analysis to include the experimental uncertainties for the charged fermion masses and CKM mixing parameters. While both toy models provide equally good fits to the low energy data, we show how they could be distinguished via their predictions of ratios for nucleon decay rates. Together with \texttt{SusyTCProton} we also make the additional module \texttt{ProtonDecay} public. It can be used independently from \texttt{REAP} and allows to calculate nucleon decay rates from given $D=5$ and $D=6$ operator coefficients (accepting the required SUSY input for the $D=5$ case in SLHA format). The $D=6$ functionality can also be used to calculate nucleon decay in non-SUSY GUTs.
description: Note: 34 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. The packages ProtonDecay and SusyTCProton can be downloaded from http://particlesandcosmology.unibas.ch/downloads/protondecay.html
Additional file 16 of Association of expression of epigenetic molecular factors with DNA methylation and sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents in cancer cell lines
Creators: name: Vural, Suleyman
name: Palmisano, Alida
name: Reinhold, William C.
name: Pommier, Yves
name: Teicher, Beverly A.
name: Krushkal, Julia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 16: Table S16. Significant correlations of GMD expression with drug response in the CCLE-GDSC pancancer dataset from Table 1 which had available data for association analysis in CellminerCDB.
SIRIUS project II: a new tree-direct hybrid code for smoothed particle hydrodynamics/N-body simulations of star clusters
Creators: name: Fujii, M. S.
name: Saitoh, T. R.
name: Wang, L.
name: Hirai, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Star clusters form via clustering star formation inside molecular clouds. In order to understand the dynamical evolution of star clusters in their early phase, in which star clusters are still embedded in their surrounding gas, we need an accurate integration of individual stellar orbits without gravitational softening in the systems including both gas and stars, as well as modeling individual stars with a realistic mass function. We develop a new tree-direct hybrid smoothed particle hydrodynamics/N-body code, ASURA+BRIDGE, in which stars are integrated using a direct N-body scheme or PeTar, a particle-particle particle-tree scheme code, without gravitational softening. In ASURA+BRIDGE, stars are assumed to have masses randomly drawn from a given initial mass function. With this code, we perform star-cluster formation simulations starting from molecular clouds without gravitational softening. We find that artificial dense cores in star-cluster centers due to the softening disappear when we do not use softening. We further demonstrate that star clusters are built up via mergers of smaller clumps. Star clusters formed in our simulations include some dynamically formed binaries with the minimum semi-major axes of a few au, and the binary fraction is higher for more massive stars.
description: 17 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in PASJ
Lexical elicitation: Numerals, animals, body parts, foods
Creators: name: Koech, Nicholas Kipchumba
name: Bossi, Madeline
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: tuy

description: Two .wav files (I with lavalier mic, M with in-recorder mic). See Notebook 2 (file bundle 2019-26.002). Elicitation of various lexical items including numerals, animals, body parts, and foods.
Thermal conductivity of B-DNA
Creators: name: Mahalingam, Vignesh
name: Harursampath, Dineshkumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal conductivity of B-form double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) of the Drew-Dickerson sequence d(CGCGAATTCGCG) is computed using classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. In contrast to previous studies, which focus on a simplified 1D model or a coarse-grained model of DNA to improve simulation times, full atomistic simulations are employed to understand the thermal conduction in B-DNA. Thermal conductivity at different temperatures from 100 to 400 K are investigated using the Einstein Green-Kubo equilibrium and Müller-Plathe non-equilibrium formalisms. The thermal conductivity of B-DNA at room temperature is found to be 1.5 W/m$\cdot$K in equilibrium and 1.225 W/m$\cdot$K in non-equilibrium approach. In addition, the denaturation regime of B-DNA is obtained from the variation of thermal conductivity with temperature. It is in agreement with previous works using Peyrard-Bishop Dauxois (PBD) model at a temperature of around 350 K. The quantum heat capacity ($C_{vq}$) has given the additional clues regarding the Debye and denaturation temperature of 12-bp B-DNA.
A new synthetic dye
Creators: name: Powell, Vincent Robert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines Carlos Monsiváis's crónicas, focusing on the transformative nature of language and signification. By incorporating multiple perceptions into his narration, and by resorting to irony, sarcasm, satire and parody, he challenges and undermines the dominant class's hegemonic discourse, and in the process, he underlines the pluralistic nature of Mexican society. In chapter one we analyze the characteristics of the crónicas in so far as they oscillate between journalism and literature. Chapter two focuses on the crucial role assigned to urban popular culture, and we investigate how its myths, symbols and beliefs are resignified within the contemporary urban setting. Chapter three explores the narrational posture because this is how the author shapes and conveys his or her point of view. In Monsiváis's crónicas, this narrative point of view is multifarious, such that a kaleidoscope of viewpoints are presented to the reader. Chapter four is an exegesis of the various languages which are put into play in Monsiváis's crónicas, highlighting the conflictive and contradictory opinions of the different sectors of Mexican society. In relating Bakhtin's idea of heteroglossia to Monsiváis's texts, we accentuate that this appropriation of numerous languages implies that they compete for signification and social transformation, given that meanings are reformulated as previous discourses are incorporated into new forms and contexts. Therefore, Monsiváis's crónicas echo Bakhtin's "Discourse in the Novel" and his idea of language as an open system where signification is not limited to the interpretations imposed by the dominant classes, but rather it is in a constant state of collision and resignification according to the concrete and ceaseless flow of utterances produced in dialogues between speakers in specific social and historical contexts. In this sense, Monsiváis crónicas could be read as a democratic project.
One Planet Living and the legitimacy of sustainability governance: From standardised information to regenerative systems
Creators: name: Gerhards, Jan-joris
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2021

description: The past two decades have witnessed an increased use of voluntary governance instruments providing guidance on sustainability strategy and/or monitoring, rewarding users with marketable public information such as certifications, ratings, and reports, to incentivise take-up. To support trustworthy information, these instruments are typically based on standardised assessment criteria. Such standardisation has been applied across increasingly complex varied contexts, such as companies, neighbourhoods, and cities. However, recent academic literature emphasises more context-sensitive and systems-based, or ‘regenerative’, approaches, giving cause for questioning the effectiveness of standardised approaches. This thesis uses the concept of ‘legitimacy’ to evaluate instruments, based on promoting effective programmes, achieving take-up and systemic effectiveness, and providing public information that is high quality rather than reflecting positively on business-as-usual practices. Existing research finds that standardised approaches have achieved take-up at the expense of programme effectiveness and informational quality. Although research calls for alternative approaches compatible with a systems-based or regenerative perspective, there remains a shortage of empirical investigations of established instruments based on this perspective. This research addresses this need by evaluating Bioregional’s One Planet Living framework, using a practice-embedded, mixed-methods methodology. The framework is found to promote effective, participatory, and generally transparent programmes. However, the flexible, bespoke approach can provide limitations in terms of structure, resource requirements, and the integration of measurement, which can affect take-up as well as programme processes and transparency. Overall, the research provides insights into the role that voluntary instruments can play in sustainability governance across complex and varied contexts. Despite their widespread usage and ability to scale, standardised approaches have major limitations in the important matter of supporting effective programmes. OPL’s regenerative approach can support programmes effectively but has limitations particularly in relation to take-up, partly reflecting the more bespoke model, and partly reflecting the more fundamental problem of mobilising ambitious action on a voluntary basis. The question of scaling such practices remains of urgent importance.
Large-Stone Mixes for Reducing Rutting
Creators: name: Mahboub, Kamyar C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Large-stone mixes are becoming a very popular means for reducing rutting in flexible pavements. Aggregate interlock in large-stone mixes provides for very efficient dissipation of compressive and shear stresses that are known to be responsible for rutting and shoving in flexible pavements. This report documents mix design procedures and laboratory testing for characterization of rutting potential of large-stone asphalt mixes (LSAM) in Kentucky and particularly the Louisa Bypass project.  A series of large-stone aggregate gradations were studied. A promising aggregate gradation was selected in cooperation with Kentucky Department of Highway officials and representatives of the asphalt industry. Based upon the findings of this study, several test sections were constructed on coal-haul corridors throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. LSAM sections have been in service for less than one year, and conclusions on the performance of these mixes would be premature. It is important, however, to note that conventional asphalt mixtures on pavements subjected to heavy tTuck traffic in Kentucky usually exhibit severe rutting after only a few months in service. In this respect, one may conclude that LSAM projects have performed well. Performance-oriented laboratory test results indicate that higher levels of structural capacity and rutting resistance, as compared to conventional hot mix asphalt, may be achieved by using the LSAM in flexible pavements. A field trial followed the laboratory investigations. Construction of the Louisa Bypass, which is located in the mountainous region of eastern Kentucky, was studied. Recommendations presented in this report for construction of Large-stone mixes in heavy haul roads are based upon information obtained from the Louisa Bypass.
Formation of Regression Model for Analysis of Complex Systems Using Methodology of Genetic Algorithms
Creators: name: Mokshin, Anatolii V.
name: Mokshin, Vladimir V.
name: Mirziyarova, Diana A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study presents the approach to analyzing the evolution of an arbitrary complex system whose behavior is characterized by a set of different time-dependent factors. The key requirement for these factors is only that they must contain an information about the system; it does not matter at all what the nature (physical, biological, social, economic, etc.) of a complex system is. Within the framework of the presented theoretical approach, the problem of searching for non-linear regression models that express the relationship between these factors for a complex system under study is solved. It will be shown that this problem can be solved using the methodology of \emph{genetic (evolutionary)} algorithms. The resulting regression models make it possible to predict the most probable evolution of the considered system, as well as to determine the significance of some factors and, thereby, to formulate some recommendations to drive by this system. It will be shown that the presented theoretical approach can be used to analyze the data (information) characterizing the educational process in the discipline "Physics" in the secondary school, and to develop the strategies for improving academic performance in this discipline.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Summary of Results of 1989 Field and Laboratory Evaluations of Pavement Marking Materials
Creators: name: Kentucky Transportation Center
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report summarizes the results of data collected as part of the field and laboratory evaluations of pavement marking materials for the SASHTO Regional Test Facility. The purpose of the Regional Test Facility (RTF) is to minimize the amount of field and laboratory research testing of specific types of materials. This is accomplished by combining efforts in an organized manner to reduce the monetary and man-hour requirements of both the states and industry. A RTF for the twelve SASHTO states was approved at the 1988 SASHTO convention. The twelve SASHTO states are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.  The SASHTO Regional Test Facility (SRTF) began operation in November 1988 when informational packets were mailed to all known manufacturers of four types of material. One type of material was classified as striping materials. The manufacturers had until 5:00 p.m. at the end of the first working day in January 1989 to submit a Product Evaluation Form, a check for the testing fee, sample materials, and other pertinent information to the coordinator of the SRTF in order to have their product considered for inclusion in the testing process for that calendar year. A testing fee of $2,000 per sample was established for the striping materials. This fee covered the cost of performing the required field and laboratory tests and reporting the results.  Different states were selected to perform the tests for the various materials. For the striping materials, Kentucky was selected as the lead state responsible for reporting the results. Alabama was selected as the support state. Identical field installations were placed in Kentucky and Alabama. The laboratory tests were performed by Louisiana. The Transportation Center at the University of Kentucky performed the work in Kentucky for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. The Alabama Highway Department conducted the field tests in Alabama while the Louisiana Department of Transportation performed the laboratory tests in Louisiana.
A Synchronous Spin-Exchange Optically Pumped NMR-Gyroscope
Creators: name: Sorensen, Susan S.
name: Thrasher, Daniel A.
name: Walker, Thad G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inertial navigation systems generally consist of timing, acceleration, and orientation measurement units. Although much progress has been made towards developing primary timing sources such as atomic clocks, acceleration and orientation measurement units often require calibration. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) gyroscopes, which rely on continuous measurement of the simultaneous Larmor precession of two co-located polarized noble gases, can be configured to have scale factors that depend to first order only on fundamental constants. The noble gases are polarized by spin-exchange collisions with co-located optically pumped alkali-metal atoms. The alkali-metal atoms are also used to detect the phase of precession of the polarized noble gas nuclei. Here we present a version of an NMR gyroscope designed to suppress systematic errors from the alkali-metal atoms. We demonstrate rotation rate angle random walk (ARW) sensitivity of 16 $μ\text{Hz}/\sqrt{\text{Hz}}$ and bias instability of $\sim$800 nHz.
Stellar Processes Near the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Alexander, Tal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A massive black hole resides in the center of most, perhaps all galaxies. The one in the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, provides a uniquely accessible laboratory for studying in detail the connections and interactions between a massive black hole and the stellar system in which it grows; for investigating the effects of extreme density, velocity and tidal fields on stars; and for using stars to probe the central dark mass and probe post-Newtonian gravity in the weak- and strong-field limits. Recent results, open questions and future prospects are reviewed in the wider context of the theoretical framework and physical processes that underlie them. Contents: [1] Introduction (1.1) Astrophysical context (1.2) Science questions (1.3) Scope and connections to related topics [2] Observational overview: Stars in the Galactic center (2.1) The central 100 parsecs (2.2) The central parsec [3] Stellar dynamics at extreme densities (3.1) Physical processes and scales (3.2) The stellar cusp in the Galactic center (3.3) Mass segregation (3.4) Stellar Collisions [4] Probing the dark mass with stellar dynamics (4.1) Weighing and pinpointing the dark mass (4.2) Constraints on non-BH dark mass alternatives (4.3) Limits on MBH binarity (4.4) High-velocity runaway stars [5] Probing post-Newtonian gravity near the MBH (5.1) Relativistic orbital effects (5.2) Gravitational lensing [6] Strong star-MBH interactions (6.1) Tidal disruption (6.2) Dissipative interactions with the MBH [7] The riddle of the young stars (7.1) The difficulties of forming or importing stars near a MBH (7.2) Proposed solutions (7.3) Feeding the MBH with stellar winds [8] Outlook (8.1) Progress report (8.2) Future directions
description: Invited review article, to appear in Physics Reports. 101 pp
Additional file 19 of Association of expression of epigenetic molecular factors with DNA methylation and sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents in cancer cell lines
Creators: name: Vural, Suleyman
name: Palmisano, Alida
name: Reinhold, William C.
name: Pommier, Yves
name: Teicher, Beverly A.
name: Krushkal, Julia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 19: Data S1. Selected examples of association of GMD expression with DNA methylation of epigenome targets in individual cancer categories.
Polaron Problems in Ultracold Atoms: Role of a Fermi Sea across Different Spatial Dimensions and Quantum Fluctuations of a Bose Medium
Creators: name: Tajima, Hiroyuki
name: Takahashi, Junichi
name: Mistakidis, Simeon I.
name: Nakano, Eiji
name: Iida, Kei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The notion of a polaron, originally introduced in the context of electrons in ionic lattices, helps us to understand how a quantum impurity behaves when being immersed in and interacting with a many-body background. We discuss the impact of the impurities on the medium particles by considering feedback effects from polarons that can be realized in ultracold quantum gas experiments. In particular, we exemplify the modifications of the medium in the presence of either Fermi or Bose polarons. Regarding Fermi polarons we present a corresponding many-body diagrammatic approach operating at finite temperatures and discuss how mediated two- and three-body interactions are implemented within this framework. Utilizing this approach, we analyze the behavior of the spectral function of Fermi polarons at finite temperature by varying impurity-medium interactions as well as spatial dimensions from three to one. Interestingly, we reveal that the spectral function of the medium atoms could be a useful quantity for analyzing the transition/crossover from attractive polarons to molecules in three-dimensions. As for the Bose polaron, we showcase the depletion of the background Bose-Einstein condensate in the vicinity of the impurity atom. Such spatial modulations would be important for future investigations regarding the quantification of interpolaron correlations in Bose polaron problems.
description: 39 pages, 9 figures
Claude Bragdon: Senior Thesis
Creators: name: Taylor, Karen
Publisher: name: University of Rochester
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360102
subject: Art history
classificationCode: 3604
subject: Performing arts
classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing

description: Introduction: "A man of many talents, Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866-1946) was an architect, artist, writer, philosopher, and stage designer. Bragdon's work in these varied fields interrelated and overlapped, tied together by his theosophical belief in creating and communicating beauty. After a successful career as an architect in Rochester, NY, Bragdon entered the world of stage design in 1919, at the age of 53, by consenting to design a traveling production of Hamlet for actor-producer and personal friend Walter Hampden. Bragdon's arrival in the world of theater came at a time when significant changes in staging techniques were on the horizon."This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Manuscripts website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-10-09.
The Hot Gas Halos of Galaxies in Groups
Creators: name: Jeltema, Tesla E.
name: Binder, Breanna
name: Mulchaey, John S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use Chandra observations of 13 nearby groups of galaxies to investigate the hot gas content of their member galaxies. We find that a large fraction of near-IR bright, early-type galaxies in groups have extended X-ray emission, indicating that they retain significant hot gas halos even in these dense environments. In particular, we detect hot gas halos in ~80% of L_K > L_star galaxies. We do not find a significant difference in the L_K-L_X relation for detected group and cluster early-type galaxies. However, we detect X-ray emission from a significantly higher fraction of galaxies brighter than L_star in groups compared to clusters, indicating that a larger fraction of galaxies in clusters experience significant stripping of their hot gas. In addition, group and cluster galaxies appear to be X-ray faint compared to field galaxies, though a Chandra based field sample is needed to confirm this result. The near-IR bright late-types galaxies in clusters and groups appear to follow the L_K-L_X relation for early-type galaxies, while near-IR fainter late-type galaxies are significantly more X-ray luminous than this relation likely due to star formation. Finally, we find individual examples of ongoing gas stripping of group galaxies. One galaxy shows a 40-50 kpc X-ray tail, and two merging galaxy systems show tidal bridges/tails of X-ray emission. Therefore, stripping of hot galactic gas through both ram pressure and tidal forces does occur in groups and clusters, but the frequency or efficiency of such events must be moderate enough to allow hot gas halos in a large fraction of bright galaxies to survive even in group and cluster cores.
description: 33 pages, 7 figures, accepted to ApJ, for version with full resolution figures see http://www.ucolick.org/~tesla/groupgals.ps.gz
The Joy of Piracy: Ned Buntline and the Legacy of the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main
Creators: name: Gorman, Jr., Daniel
Publisher: name: University of Rochester
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 470307
subject: English language

description: Paper submitted to fulfill HIS 252 course, Cultural History of the United States, 1876-Present taught by Professor Joan Rubin, Fall 2011Introduction: "Before there were comic books, there were dime novels. Printed on cheap paper, dime novels brought outrageous genre stories - tales of cowboys, detectives, pirates, soldiers, and damsels in distress - to the American public for little cost. Dime novels steadily grew in popularity throughout the 1800s, but suffered from a gradual decline in quality and popularity in the last quarter of the century. Many of these books were produced in fiction factories - writers and editors collaboratively producing texts, which finally were published under pseudonyms - but a number of individual writers rose to prominence. One such author, Ned Buntline, was particularly well known, and his most famous work, The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main, became the iconic pirate yarn of his age. From a thematic standpoint, Black Avenger is notable for depicting piracy as a temporary release from normal codes of behavior. To understand the lasting influence of this pirate story, especially its intertextual relationship with the works of Mark Twain (e.g., Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn), this paper will explore both the literary techniques and depictions of race, gender, and morality present in dime pirate novels."
Friction vs Texture at the Approach of a Granular Avalanche
Creators: name: Staron, Lydie
name: Radjai, Farhang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a novel analysis of the granular texture of a granular bed close to stability limit. Our analysis is based on a unique criterion of friction mobilisation in a simulated two-dimensional packing. In this way, we recover the bimodal character of granular texture, and the coexistence of weak and strong phases in the sense of distinct contacts populations. Moreover, we show the existence of a well-defined subset of contacts within the weak contact network. These contacts are characterized by their important friction, and form a highly coherent population in terms of fabric. They play an antagonistic role with respect to force chains. We are thus able to discriminate between incoherent contacts and coherent contacts in the weak phase, and to specify the role that the latter plays in the destabilisation process.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
Proton strings and rings in atypical nucleation of ferroelectricity in ice
Creators: name: Lasave, Jorge
name: Koval, Sergio
name: Laio, Alessandro
name: Tosatti, Erio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ordinary ice has a proton-disordered phase which is kinetically metastable, unable to reach, spontaneously, the ferroelectric (FE) ground state at low temperature where a residual Pauling entropy persists. Upon light doping with KOH at low temperature, the transition to FE ice takes place, but its microscopic mechanism still needs clarification. We introduce a lattice model based on dipolar interactions plus a competing, frustrating term that enforces the ice rule (IR). In the absence of IR-breaking defects, standard Monte Carlo (MC) simulation leaves this ice model stuck in a state of disordered proton ring configurations with the correct Pauling entropy. A replica exchange accelerated MC sampling strategy succeeds, without open path moves, interfaces, or off-lattice configurations, in equilibrating this defect-free ice, reaching its low-temperature FE order through a well-defined first-order phase transition. When proton vacancies mimicking the KOH impurities are planted into the IR-conserving lattice, they enable standard MC simulation to work, revealing the kinetics of evolution of ice from proton disorder to partial FE order below the transition temperature. Replacing ordinary nucleation, each impurity opens up a proton ring generating a linear string, an actual FE hydrogen bond wire that expands with time. Reminiscent of those described for spin ice, these impurity-induced strings are proposed to exist in doped water ice too, where IRs are even stronger. The emerging mechanism yields a dependence of the long-time FE order fraction upon dopant concentration, and upon quenching temperature, that compares favorably with that known in real-life KOH doped ice.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Media Consumption and the Construction of Diasporic Identities of Youth of Pakistani Origin in Britain
Creators: name: Rizvi, Syeda
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2021

description: The topic of this thesis is ‘Media Consumption and the Construction of Diasporic Iden-tities of Youth of Pakistani Origin in Britain’. This research aims to investigate interplay between consumption of media and the construction of identity of young people of Pakistani heritage born and brought up in Britain, known as British-Pakistanis. Role of media has been recognized as a part of social institutions that contribute to formation of identity. The overpowering presence of media in everyday life and penetration of digital media into personal lives relate in many ways to the construction and expression of iden-tities including those of diasporas. The interactive nature of digital media has trans-formed the character of media consumers from passive receivers to producers as well, which also invokes reflexivity leading to discovery and construction of various facets of identity. The identity of Pakistani diaspora, predominantly Muslim, came into focus in the aftermath of 9/11 and 7/7 because of involvement of young Muslim men in these incidences, which led to association of terrorism with the Muslims and gave rise to phenomenon of ‘Islamophobia’ in which media also played a significant role by portray-ing Muslims in a peculiar way. The research was carried out in two cities London and Bradford. Choosing qualitative method suitable to such research, 20 focus groups were conducted with total of 160 participants in the categories of age groups 18-24 and 25-30 with subcategories of Male only, Female only and Mixed groups. Besides this a ques-tionnaire was also circulated to collect some quantitative data about the consumption pattern in terms of type of media and content accessed. Data was analysed in the light of theories about media and diasporas in globalized world and emergence of Islam and Muslims as security threat to the West in physical as well as ideological sense.
Additional file 1 of Association of expression of epigenetic molecular factors with DNA methylation and sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents in cancer cell lines
Creators: name: Vural, Suleyman
name: Palmisano, Alida
name: Reinhold, William C.
name: Pommier, Yves
name: Teicher, Beverly A.
name: Krushkal, Julia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Genes directly or indirectly involved in DNA methylation and demethylation which were included in analysis.
The Joy of Piracy: Ned Buntline and the Legacy of the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main
Creators: name: Gorman, Jr., Daniel
Publisher: name: University of Rochester
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 470307
subject: English language

description: Paper submitted to fulfill HIS 252 course, Cultural History of the United States, 1876-Present taught by Professor Joan Rubin, Fall 2011Introduction: "Before there were comic books, there were dime novels. Printed on cheap paper, dime novels brought outrageous genre stories - tales of cowboys, detectives, pirates, soldiers, and damsels in distress - to the American public for little cost. Dime novels steadily grew in popularity throughout the 1800s, but suffered from a gradual decline in quality and popularity in the last quarter of the century. Many of these books were produced in fiction factories - writers and editors collaboratively producing texts, which finally were published under pseudonyms - but a number of individual writers rose to prominence. One such author, Ned Buntline, was particularly well known, and his most famous work, The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main, became the iconic pirate yarn of his age. From a thematic standpoint, Black Avenger is notable for depicting piracy as a temporary release from normal codes of behavior. To understand the lasting influence of this pirate story, especially its intertextual relationship with the works of Mark Twain (e.g., Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn), this paper will explore both the literary techniques and depictions of race, gender, and morality present in dime pirate novels."This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Manuscripts website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-10-08.
Bioaccumulation and Distribution of Heavy Metals (Cd, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb and Zn) in the Different Tissues of Chicoreus capucinus Lamarck (Mollusca: Muricidae) Collected from Sungai Janggut, Kuala Langat, Malaysia
Creators: name: Berandah, Franklin Edward
name: Yap Chee Kong
name: Ismail, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2010
Subjects: heavy metals,sequential extraction,sediment,mollusc,biomonitor

description: 1, 3, EnvironmentAsia
Vibrating Winding Branes, Wrapping Democracy and Stabilization of Extra Dimensions in Dilaton Gravity
Creators: name: Rador, Tonguç
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that, in the context of dilaton gravity, a recently proposed democratic principle for intersection possibilities of branes winding around extra dimensions yield stabilization, even with the inclusion of momentum modes of the wrapped branes on top of the winding modes. The constraints for stabilization massaged by string theory inputs forces the number of observed dimensions to be three. We also discuss consequences of adding ordinary matter living in the observed dimensions.
description: Added a section discussing the linear and non-linear stability of the equilibrium point of the scale factors of the extra dimensions. Corrected a typo in the original field equations and other typos. Added and changed references. Final version appeared in JHEP
PREPARATION OF MGO AND CAO NANOPARTICLES FOR NEUTRALIZATION OF MUSTARD CHEMICAL WARFARE
Creators: name: M Armanmehr, F Mohajer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: Nano-sized metal oxides are absorbents of pollutants. They react with toxic chemical. Magnesium oxide nanoparticles are used in dehalogenation of industrial wastes. MgO nanocrystals are used as catalyst in many chemical reactions.
description: . In this research work, we prepared MgO nanoparticles by ultrasound-assisted hydrolysis of Mg (OCH3) 2 in the presence of toluene. Commercially available Mg (OCH3) 2 was used. The hydroxide gel was dried, and then calcined at 500 °C for 4h, and nanosized MgO was collected.
Occurrence and Biological Fate of Persistent Organic Contaminants in Yellow Sea Fish
Creators: name: Narayanan Kannan
name: Choi, Hae Kyoung
name: Hong, Sang Hee
name: Oh, Jae Ryoung
name: Shim, Won Joon
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2010
Subjects: POPs,pesticides,agrochemicals,PCBs,Yellow Sea,large marine ecosystem,Korean Offshore sewage dumping,survey,fish

description: 1, 3, EnvironmentAsia
Additional file 1 of Estimated glucose disposal rate outperforms other insulin resistance surrogates in predicting incident cardiovascular diseases in cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome stages 0–3 and the development of a machine learning prediction model: a nationwide prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Dong, Bingtian
name: Chen, Yuping
name: Yang, Xiaocen
name: Chen, Zhengdong
name: Zhang, Hua
name: Gao, Yuan
name: Zhao, Enfa
name: Zhang, Chaoxue
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Additional file 20 of Association of expression of epigenetic molecular factors with DNA methylation and sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents in cancer cell lines
Creators: name: Vural, Suleyman
name: Palmisano, Alida
name: Reinhold, William C.
name: Pommier, Yves
name: Teicher, Beverly A.
name: Krushkal, Julia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 20: Figure S1. Plots showing the distribution of DNA methylation values among 424,840 individual probes, the combined distribution of DNA methylation among 93,591 gene regions, and separate distribution for each gene region category in the 645 cell lines in the pancancer dataset.
Psychopathy and recidivism in adolescence: a ten-year retrospective follow-up
Creators: name: Gretton, Heather Margaret
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Violent and aggressive behavior is a subset of antisocial behavior that is of particular concern to the criminal justice system and to the general public. A challenge facing mental health professionals and the criminal justice system is to assess—with a reasonable degree of accuracy—the likelihood that a young offender will recidivate and to arrange appropriate interventions. Because of its psychometric properties and high predictive validity, the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) is being incorporated into risk assessment batteries for use with adults. The purpose of the study was to extend the risk paradigm to adolescent offenders, investigating the predictive validity of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV) from adolescence to adulthood. Subjects were 157 admissions, ages 12-18, referred to Youth Court Services for psychological or psychiatric assessment. Archival data were used to complete retrospectively the PCL:YV and to code criminal history and demographic data on each of the subjects. Follow-up criminal record data were collected, with an average follow-up time of ten years. Over the follow-up period psychopaths demonstrated a greater risk for committing violent offences than nonpsychopaths. They committed violent offences at a higher rate, earlier following their release from custody, and were more likely to escape from custody than nonpsychopaths. Further, results indicate that PCL:YV score, a difference in performance - verbal intellectual functioning (P > V Index), and history of self-harm contributed significantly to the prediction of violent outcome, over and above the contribution of a combination of criminal-history and demographic variables. Finally, background and demographic characteristics were compared between violent and nonviolent psychopaths. Findings are discussed in the context of current conceptualizations of psychopathy and adolescent antisocial behavior.
Comparison of Lead Removal by Various Types of Swine Bone Adsorbents
Creators: name: Sudaratn Lurtwitayapont
name: Thares Srisatit
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2010
Subjects: lead,swine bone adsorbent,sorption,isotherm

description: 1, 3, EnvironmentAsia
Fermi surface induced lattice distortion in NbTe$_2$
Creators: name: Battaglia, Corsin
name: Cercellier, Hervé
name: Clerc, Florian
name: Despont, Laurent
name: Garnier, Michael Gunnar
name: Koitzsch, Christian
name: Berger, Helmuth
name: Forró, László
name: Ambrosch-Draxl, Claudia
name: Aebi, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of the monoclinic distortion and domain formation in the quasi two-dimensional layer compound NbTe$_2$ is investigated. Angle-resolved photoemission shows that the Fermi surface is pseudogapped over large portions of the Brillouin zone. Ab initio calculation of the electron and phonon bandstructure as well as the static RPA susceptibility lead us to conclude that Fermi surface nesting and electron-phonon coupling play a key role in the lowering of the crystal symmetry and in the formation of the charge density wave phase.
Additional file 1 of Risk of adverse obstetrical and neonatal outcomes in women consuming recreational drugs during pregnancy
Creators: name: Kandhasamy, Sreemanjari
name: Lepigeon, Karine
name: Baggio, Stéphanie
name: Céline, Roulet
name: Ceulemans, Michael
name: Winterfeld, Ursula
name: Jenkinson, Stephen P.
name: Francini, Katyuska
name: Maisonneuve, Emeline
name: Panchaud, Alice
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.