cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tillicera obscura Gerstmeier & Bernhard 2010, n. sp.
Creators: name: Gerstmeier, Roland
name: Bernhard, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Tillicera
Tillicera obscura

description: Tillicera obscura Gerstmeier & Bernhard n. sp.
(Figs. 13, 36)
 Specimens examined: Holotype: ♀. Malaysia-W, Pahang, 30 km E of Ipoh, 1500 m, Cameron Highlands, Tanah Rata, 20.2.- 3.3.1998, P. Chechovsky leg., coll. R. Gerstmeier, Munich (RGCM).
 Paratype: ♀. Malaysia-W, Perak, 25 km E of Ipoh, 2100 m, Banjaran Titi Wangsa mts., Korbu mt., 4.- 13.3.1998, P. Chechovsky leg. (RGCM).
 Length: 12–13mm (2 specimens).
 Collecting period: March.
 Head: Black, anterior part of clypeus, labrum and palpi brown, posterior part of clypeus black; distributed with fine and diffuse punctation; cranium vested with erect predominantly pale setae; head including eyes only slightly broader than anterior width of pronotum.
 Antennae: Dark brown to black, A1 to A4 or A5 slightly paler, vested with depressed pale and dark setae; antennomeres triangularly dilated from A5 or A6 onwards, A10 as long as wide.
 Pronotum: Red-brown to brown, anterior to transverse depression darker; surface finely and diffusely punctate; predominatly vested with anteriorly directed erect, dark and pale, setae; length:width ratio 1.14:1 (broadest in middle).
 Scutellum: Brown, with dark margin, finely punctate, scarcely vested with setae.
 Elytra: Black, basal third with a brown macula, beginning just behind base and reaching posteriorly towards the anterior, brown pigmented, curved, transverse fascia, just behind scutellum with a small macula of pattern-forming pale setae, and a posterior, brown pigmented transverse fascia; basal third regularly and deeply punctate in rows, rows 3 to 10 reaching the black part in the middle, then becoming obsolete, diameter of punctures larger than interstices, apex densely, finely and irregularly punctate, emarginated; basal third with erect pale and dark setae, middle part with posteriorly directed and semi-decumbent, dark setae, apex with predominantly longer, pale setae, the transverse fascia with dense, depressed, pale setae; length:width ratio 2.21:1.
 Legs: Brown, femora at least at base slightly paler, with dense erect setae on tibiae and depressed, pale setae on femora; hindtibiae with carinae.
 Ventral surface: Abdomen black to brown, thorax brown, with dense, pale, depressed setae.
 Distribution: Malaysia.
 Etymology: The trivial name obscura is a Latin adjective, we refer to the comparatively dark colour of the beetle.
description: Published as part of Gerstmeier, Roland & Bernhard, Nadine, 2010, Revision of the genus Tillicera Spinola, 1841 (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 2359 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5308760
Communicating environmental performance: qualitative study on the perspectives of the Nordic wood industry
Creators: name: Raty, T.
name: Nuutinen, T.
name: Perttula, S.
name: Riala, M.
name: Toppinen, A.
name: Wang, L.
name: Lindqvist, D.
name: Roos, A.
name: Nyrud, A.Q.
name: Tellnes, L.
name: Raty, T.
name: Nuutinen, T.
name: Perttula, S.
name: Riala, M.
name: Toppinen, A.
name: Wang, L.
name: Lindqvist, D.
name: Roos, A.
name: Nyrud, A.Q.
name: Tellnes, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agribusiness
Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: The purpose of this study is to explore how companies in the Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian wood products value-chains currently employ environmental performance measures (EPMs) in their communication and to study the existence of strategic element in the use of EPMs. The primary data for this study was collected by conducting 41 thematic interviews in 2011 in the three countries and was analyzed using theory-driven thematization. According to our results the most important EPMs in this context are forest certificates and the key stakeholders targeted are customers, suppliers and environmental authorities.
Student Teachers’ Voices: A Historical Exploration of Teacher Education in Shanghai, China (1949-1982)
Creators: name: Jiang, Hong
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Teacher education
Oral history
History of education
China study

description: In 2007 a new government-funded initial teacher training programme was introduced in China. Emergent problems associated with the implementation of this policy call for a new research agenda that is able to illuminate aspects of the history of teacher education in China. Through the exploration of the hidden and often untold stories of ordinary teachers’ lives from the past, this research project seeks to construct a more authentic and comprehensive historical account of teacher education in China from 1949 to 1982. It also strives to help in raising an awareness among teachers, researchers and policy makers of the significance of reflecting on the history of teacher education, in both individual and collective ways. Three types of qualitative sources, namely documentary, visual and oral data were assembled from archival and online searches, and by the conducting of 40 in-depth oral history interviews. Drawing on former student teachers’ testimonies, this thesis investigates key features and major trends marking the formal pattern of the Chinese teacher education system since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China. It is argued that despite a number of radical structural and theoretical changes brought about by political campaigns over time, from the perspective of the student teachers themselves, continuities were more fundamental in this particular historical period. Aspects central to these continuities were a tiered teacher education system and two major approaches to teacher training. Compared to teacher education in the higher education sector, the normal school approach was recognised as having a systematic advantage in preparing teachers for classroom teaching. This dissertation also scrutinises the impact of educational reforms upon the teaching profession and teachers’ identities (individual and collective) from a rhetorical perspective. Evidence from a variety of documents, visual materials and interviewees’ recollections suggests that, as an inherent linguistic and cultural characteristic of the Chinese language, metaphor, together with narratives and other literary devices, plays an important role in shaping key concepts relevant to teacher education in China. The thesis resists conventional perceptions which associate a collectivist ethos among teachers chiefly with political propaganda, attributing it rather with traditional Chinese cultural values.
Effect of oxygen vacancies on direct N2O decomposition over ZrO2-Y2O3 catalysts
Creators: name: Cho, Chang-Min
name: Naoyoshi Nunotani
name: Nobuhito Imanaka
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The effect of oxygen vacancies on catalytic activity for direct N2O decomposition was demonstrated in Zr1−xYxO2−δ solid solutions with a fluorite-related structure. The fluorite-type structure was formed as samples with a small amount of Y3+ (0.05 ≤ x ≤ 0.19) and a large amount of Y3+ (x ≥ 0.80), leading to the generation of a C-type structure derived from the fluorite-type structure by removing a quarter of the oxide anions. The oxygen vacancies worked as N2O adsorption sites and catalytic active sites, with the highest activity realized by the YO1.5 catalyst with a C-type structure, which contained the largest number of oxygen vacancies in the ZrO2-Y2O3 system.
Green business practices in the wood industry sector – A review
Creators: name: Roos, A.
name: Nuutinen, T.
name: Nyrud, A.Q.
name: Perttula, S.
name: Riala, T.
name: Tellnes, L.
name: Toppinen, A.
name: Lei Wang, L.
name: Blazkova, S.
name: Roos, A.
name: Nuutinen, T.
name: Nyrud, A.Q.
name: Perttula, S.
name: Riala, T.
name: Tellnes, L.
name: Toppinen, A.
name: Lei Wang, L.
name: Blazkova, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Wood industry
subject: supply chain management
subject: green marketing
subject: sustainable business

description: Environmental aspects of the wood product supply chain have been on the agenda for a couple of decades now. It is claimed that unsustainable forestry practices may damage biodiversity and the provision of forest ecosystem services, while wood is simultaneously perceived as a renewable material with a comparatively low carbon footprint. As is the case in other sectors, the role of the customer for fostering greener industry processes has also been highlighted, e.g. in forest certification. The development of even more environmentally friendly processes relates closely to how they are implemented and viewed among actors in the forest supply chain. The research on green practices in the wood industries has not been thoroughly collected and reviewed. An assessment of the present knowledge on the matter is needed to establish the state of the art and find approaches for future research efforts. This paper is an attempt to review and reflect upon the published business oriented research on green supply chains for wood products. The study is based on articles retrieved in relevant databases and we focus on how the literature has developed the main focus, approaches and main results. Many studies have investigated end-consumer preferences for eco-labeled wood products, mainly in North America and Europe, while fewer are oriented toward e.g. communication of green properties or business to business relations. The article provides an overview of problems that have been covered by research and identifies ‘white spots’ where knowledge still is sparse. Finally, we summarize main findings, based on the review, and suggest strategies to increase the industry and societal relevance of the research on this topic area.
Automorphic Galois representations and the inverse Galois problem for certain groups of type $D_{m}$
Creators: name: Zenteno, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F80, 12F12, 20G40

description: Let $m$ be an integer greater than three and $\ell$ be an odd prime. In this paper, we prove that at least one of the following groups: $\mbox{P}Ω^\pm_{2m}(\mathbb{F}_{\ell^s})$, $\mbox{PSO}^\pm_{2m}(\mathbb{F}_{\ell^s})$, $\mbox{PO}_{2m}^\pm(\mathbb{F}_{\ell^s})$ or $\mbox{PGO}^\pm_{2m}(\mathbb{F}_{\ell^s})$ is a Galois group of $\mathbb{Q}$ for infinitely many integers $s > 0$. This is achieved by making use of a slight modification of a group theory result of Khare, Larsen and Savin, and previous results of the author on the images of the Galois representations attached to cuspidal automorphic representations of $\mbox{GL}_{2m}(\mathbb{A}_\mathbb{Q})$..
description: Revised version - referees' comments added. The final version is to appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc
Capacity Building Acceleration Service for European HEIs (CBAS4HEIs)
Creators: name: Laneve, Stefania
name: Mentini, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: TheCBAS4HEIs is proving to be effective in creating a collaborative knowledge-based environment that can facilitate peer networking to accelerate progress in key areas outlined in the European Research Area (ERA), such as transnational cooperation, local innovation and interoperable skills.  

The main goal of this service, formed of 2 main educational and learning activities, is to provide HEIs with methods, skills and capabilities to develop transformation strategies related to specific RRI topics in a participatory way and to connect HEIs and stakeholders, by relying on knowledge sharing, mutual learning and Twinning schemes.  

The long-term impact is to achieve a more open and inclusive R&I system, improved capacities within HEIs to make Open Science and RRI a modus operandi of modern science and interconnected knowledge ecosystems.
Constraining Lambda using cluster quadrupoles
Creators: name: Maccio`, A.
name: Gardini, A.
name: Ghigna, S.
name: Bonometto, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine how the statistics of the quadrupoles of (projected) cluster masses can discriminate between flat cold dark matter (CDM) universes with or without a cosmological constant term. Even in the era of high precision cosmology that cosmic microwave background experiments should open soon, it is important to devise self consistency tests of cosmogonic theories tuned at the matter radiation decoupling epoch using data from the non--linear evolved universe. We build cluster catalogs from two large volume simulations of a ``tilted'' CDM model and a $Λ$CDM model with cosmic density parameter $Ω_m=0.35$ and cosmological constant contribution $Ω_Λ=0.65$. From the projected mass distribution of the clusters we work out the quadrupoles Q and examine their dependence on cluster mass and the cosmological model. We find that TCDM clusters have systematically larger quadrupoles than their \lcdm counterpart. The effect is mass dependent: massive clusters ($M\gsim 10^{15}\Msunh$) have quadrupoles differing by more than 30% in the two models, while for $M\lsim 4\times10^{14}\Msunh$ the difference rapidly drops to $\sim 1$%. Performing a K-S test of the Q distributions, we estimate that using just the 15 most massive clusters in the simulation volume ($360\Mpch$ a side) we can discriminate between TCDM and \lcdm at a confidence level better than 99.9%. In the volume probed by exhisting observations, there are potentially several hundred clusters with masses above the threshold for which the differences in the quadrupoles become relevant. Should weak lensing data become available for this whole set, a quadrupole analysis may be expected to discriminate among different values of $Λ$.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for pubblication in ApJ
Tillicera paula Schenkling 1908
Creators: name: Gerstmeier, Roland
name: Bernhard, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Tillicera
Tillicera paula

description: Tillicera paula Schenkling, 1908
(Figs. 14, 37–38)
 Tillicera paula Schenkling 1908: 224.
 Specimens examined: Holotype: ♀. Type, Tillicera, Paula Schklg., Type! n. sp., H.L. Andrewes, Nilgiri Hills, Andrewes, Bequest., B.M. 1922-221 (BMNH).
 Others: S. India: Nilgiri, Hills: Cherangode, 3500ft 11.1950, P.S. Nathan (RGCM).
 Length: 6–7mm (2 specimens).
 Collecting period: November.
 Head: Black, glossy, anterior part of clypeus, labrum and palpi brown, posterior part of clypeus black; distributed with fine and diffuse punctation; cranium vested with erect predominantly pale setae; head including eyes as broad as anterior width of pronotum.
 Antennae: Dark brown to black, A1 to A5 paler, vested with depressed, brown and golden setae; antennomeres triangularly dilated from A5 or A6 onwards, A10 broader than long.
 Pronotum: Red-brown to brown, anterior to transverse depression slightly darker; surface finely and densely punctate; vested with anteriorly directed, erect, dense, golden setae, surface posterior of transverse depression also with long, dark, erect setae; length:width ratio 1.1:1 (broadest at middle).
 Scutellum: Brown, finely punctate, vested with few golden setae.
 Elytra: Basal third red-brown, posteriorly margined with a yellowish pigmented transverse fascia (which is vested with dense, depressed, golden setae), middle part black, apical third brown, with a transverse fascia of dense, pattern-forming, depressed, golden setae. Basal third regularly and deeply punctate in rows, rows 3 to 5, or 3 to 6, obsolete in the black part, with small tubercles, diameter of punctures larger than interstices, apex finely and diffusely punctate; basal third with long, erect golden and dark setae, the black middle part with posteriorly directed and semi-decumbent, dark setae, apical third with depressed and erect golden setae, apex only with erect, golden setae; length:width ratio 2.11:1.
 Legs: Brown, with erect pale setae; tibiae without carinae.
 Ventral surface: Abdomen dark brown to black, thorax brown, with dense, pale setae.
 Aedeagus: Asymmetrical, with tooth-like structures.
 Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Gerstmeier, Roland & Bernhard, Nadine, 2010, Revision of the genus Tillicera Spinola, 1841 (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 2359 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5308760
Searching for Sterile Neutrino with X-ray Intensity Mapping
Creators: name: Caputo, A.
name: Regis, M.
name: Taoso, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmological X-ray emission associated to the possible radiative decay of sterile neutrinos is composed by a collection of lines at different energies. For a given mass, each line corresponds to a given redshift. In this work, we cross correlate such line emission with catalogs of galaxies tracing the dark matter distribution at different redshifts. We derive observational prospects by correlating the X-ray sky that will be probed by the eROSITA and Athena missions with current and near future photometric and spectroscopic galaxy surveys. A relevant and unexplored fraction of the parameter space of sterile neutrinos can be probed by this technique.
description: Typo corrected in Eq.4
Micromechanics of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibre composites
Creators: name: Liu, Burigede
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: composites
impact
plasticity
penetration
fracture
mechanics
fibre
matrix
crack
ballistic
indentation
kink
micro-buckling
buckling
ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene
damage
crystal plastictiy
indirect tension
finite element
projectile

description: Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibre composites are considered to be state-of-the-art materials for penetration and ballistic impact protection applications. The composites are made of strong UHMWPE fibres with a soft compliant matrix. The extreme anisotropy caused by the mismatch between the stiffness and strength of the fibres and the matrix resulted in unique deformation and failure mechanisms which cannot be found in conventional engineering materials. Therefore, the thesis contributes towards understanding the governing mechanisms of UHMWPE composites that resulted in their high penetration and impact resistance, as well as characterizing their mechanical response under dynamic loading. In the first part of the thesis, we focus on the quasi-static penetration response of UHMWPE composites by sharp-tipped punches. It is shown that the punch penetrates the composites without fibre fracture but by the formation of mode-I cracks along the fibre directions. The results indicate that the high penetration resistance of the composites by sharp-tipped punches is attributed to the high toughnesses of the composites. In the second part of the thesis, failure mechanism maps are developed to illustrate the mechanisms by which failure can initiate in UHMWPE composite beams impacted by blunt projectiles. We reveal that beams with low shear strengths fail by the indirect tension mode at high impact velocities while beams with high shear strengths fail by the bending mode at significantly lower impact velocities. The study thus provides a mechanistic understanding of the experimental observations that high ballistic performance composites require low matrix shear strength. Finally, in the third part of the thesis we investigate the dynamic in-plane compressive response of the composites. It is revealed that compressive deformation of the composites occurs by ply level kink band formation. Additionally, the study shows that the composites become strongly strain rate dependent at strain rates above 100 s^{-1} and the observed strain rate dependency is mainly attributed to that of the matrix. The findings presented throughout this thesis reveal the key mechanisms and material parameters of the UHMWPE composites which governs their impact and penetration resistance, hence open new avenues and additional routes towards the design of composite materials with ultimate performance.
Quench dynamics of entanglement spectrum and topological superconducting phases in a long-range Hamiltonian
Creators: name: Su, Kaixiang
name: Sun, Zheng-Hang
name: Fan, Heng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quench dynamics of entanglement spectra in the Kitaev chain with variable-range pairing quantified by power-law decay rate $α$. Considering the post-quench Hamiltonians with flat bands, we demonstrate that the presence of entanglement-spectrum crossings during its dynamics is able to characterize the topological phase transitions (TPTs) in both short-range ($α$ > 1) or long-range ($α$ < 1) sector. Properties of entanglement-spectrum dynamics are revealed for the quench protocols in the long-range sector or with $α$ as the quench parameter. In particular, when the lowest upper-half entanglement-spectrum value of the initial Hamiltonian is smaller than the final one, the TPTs can also be diagnosed by the difference between the lowest two upper-half entanglement-spectrum values if the halfway winding number is not equal to that of the initial Hamiltonian. Moreover, we discuss the stability of characterizing the TPTs via entanglement-spectrum crossings against energy dispersion in the long-range model.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
One rent increase from disaster: Older renters living on the edge in Western Australia, Summary Report
Creators: name: Fiedler, Jeff
name: Faulkner, Debbie
Publisher: name: The University of Adelaide
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This project has been conducted in light of extensive research that is warning of rapidly increasing housing problems facing older people. The three main factors are: an ageing population, reducing rates of home ownership and significant increases in older people relying on rental accommodation to age-in-place in their later years. The objective of the Project is to increase awareness of older people’s housing issues across Australia, improve older people’s access to affordable housing and ensure better availability of services that can help older people in housing difficulty. More specifically the aims of this project for Western Australia are to: Identify what is the level of homelessness amongst the older population in WA and who is at risk of homelessness in WA; examine the current state policy frameworks that impact on the housing circumstances of older people in WA; identify what are the housing options that currently exist, what are their main characteristics and how do older people apply for them; identify what services are available to help older people access affordable and appropriate housing in WA; propose appropriate recommendations that will lead to a systems reform approach to improve assistance and housing for low income older people.
Advances in Endourological Technology and the Impact on Outcomes and the Environment
Creators: name: Hennessey, Derek B
Publisher: name: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320214
subject: Nephrology and urology
classificationCode: 320226
subject: Surgery
classificationCode: 400709
subject: Medical robotics

description: Introduction: Endourology, a subspecialty of urology, has its roots in ancient surgical techniques. Today, the advancements in technology owe credit to the pioneers of surgery. This thesis explored several areas of interest. These areas include the role of single-use instruments, miniaturization of nephoscopes, optimal device settings, intra-renal pressure during surgeries, and the environmental impact of instruments.Methods: The study compared single-use instruments to reusable ones and highlighted the potential benefits of single-use flexible ureteroscopes in reducing scope damage and performance degradation. The LithoVue© (Boston Scientific, Marlborough, MA, United States)was found to be comparable to reusable scopes, serving as a reserve instrument. The second study evaluated a minimally invasive percutaneous nephrolithotomy system; optimal settings for stone fragmentation on the Swiss Lithoclast Trilogy© (Nyon, Suisse) were determined. The subsequent study assessed irrigation systems and equipment for retrograde intra-renal surgery (RIRS) and determined the safest combinations. Additionally, the carbon footprint of single-use flexible cystoscopes was compared to reusable devices.Results: Single-use scopes showed potential benefits, but economic viability depends on the purchase price and costs of reusable scopes. The minimally invasive percutaneous nephrolithotomy (MIP©)system (Tuttlingen. Germany) offered advantages in track creation, intrarenal vision, and stone clearance rates. Optimal settings for stone fragmentation were determined, contrary to the manufacturer's specifications. Safe equipment combinations were identified for retrograde intrarenal surgery. Due to reprocessing and cleaning costs, single-use cystoscopes had a lower carbon footprint but generated more dry waste.Conclusion: Endourology has evolved by building upon centuries of surgical knowledge. Technological advancements owe their success to the contributions of brilliant minds that came before us. Collaboration and the continuous pursuit of knowledge will further drive advancements in this field in the future.
Slow dynamics in a 2D Ising model with competing interactions
Creators: name: Gleiser, P. M.
name: Tamarit, F. A.
name: Cannas, S. A.
name: Montemurro, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The far-from-equilibrium low-temperature dynamics of ultra-thin magnetic films is analyzed by using Monte Carlo numerical simulations on a two dimensional Ising model with competing exchange ($J_0$) and dipolar ($J_d$) interactions. In particular, we focus our attention on the low temperature region of the $(δ,T)$ phase diagram (where $δ= J_0/J_d$) for the range of values of $δ$ where striped phases with widths $h=1$ ($h1$) and $h=2$ ($h2$) are present. The presence of metastable states of the phase $h2$ in the region where the phase $h1$ is the thermodynamically stable one and viceversa was established recently. In this work we show that the presence of these metastable states appears as a blocking mechanism that slows the dynamics of magnetic domains growth when the system is quenched from a high temperature state to a low temperature state in the region of metastability.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures (.eps files)
title: Développement des compétences interculturelles en cours d'anglais langue-culture étrangère au secondaire II
title: Développement des compétences interculturelles en cours d'anglais langue-culture étrangère au secondaire II
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bourgeois-Romain, Camille
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: anglais
subject: langue-culture
subject: compétences interculturelles
subject: littérature coloniale
subject: cultures africaines
subject: perspective actionnelle

description: Comment développer des compétences interculturelles à travers l’étude de textes littéraires ? Cette étude vise à explorer dans quelles mesures l’éducation aux langues et aux cultures étrangères peut jouer un rôle dans la compréhension interculturelle, l’acceptation de la différence et la communication avec l’Autre. Elle s’inscrit dans le cadre de l’enseignement de l’anglais langue-culture étrangère au niveau secondaire II en prenant pour appui deux textes canoniques de la littérature anglophone, Heart of Darkness de Joseph Conrad et Things Fall Apart de Chinua Achebe qui, chacun à leur manière, traitent de groupes ethniques minoritaires d’Afrique. Le texte littéraire est ici le support privilégié car il offre des portes d’accès aux cultures dans leur diversité et leur hétérogénéité en présentant des situations interculturelles analogues à celles que l’on peut rencontrer dans le monde réel. C’est donc à travers ces textes que cette étude se propose d’esquisser des activités d’exploitation pédagogique dans une perspective actionnelle, c’est-à-dire des tâches qui permettent de développer certains aspects de la compétence interculturelle à partir de l’analyse d’extraits littéraires.
Low compressible BP$_3$N$_6$
Creators: name: Manyali, George S.
name: Sifuna, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using first principles calculation, the structural and mechanical properties of BP$_3$N$_6$ which adopts an orthorhombic structure with space group Pna2$_1$ (no. 33), were determined at three different pressure values (0, 20 and 42.4~GPa). The nine independent elastic constants meet all necessary and sufficient conditions for mechanical stability criteria for an orthorhombic crystal. BP$_3$N$_6$ show strong resistance to volume change hence a potential low compressible material. The Vicker's hardness of BP$_3$N$_6$ was found to range between 49-51~GPa for different external pressures imposed on the crystal. These high values of Vicker's hardness implies that BP$_3$N$_6$ is a potential superhard material.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Targeting the MicroRNA Binding Domain of Argonaute 2: Rational Inhibitor Design and Study of Mutation Effects on Protein-Ligand Interaction
Creators: name: Shabnam Mahernia
name: Malihe Hassanzadeh
name: Sajad Sarvari
name: Amanlou, Massoud
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Based on the accumulative evidences during recent decades, miRNAs have been found overexpressed in several human cancer types and also in Down syndrome patients, contributing to the neuropathology of Down syndrome. From this point of view, investigations on the structure and dynamic mechanisms related to the Argonaute 2 miRNAs binding in which silencing of the mRNA occurs, have inspired many clinical researchers to target this complex to inhibit the silencing process. In the current research, we have virtually screened the OTAVA_CNS_library to introduce new inhibitor compounds for the Ago2/miRNA complex. Ten hit compounds were obtained, with just one of them nominated as the best compound. Following the interaction analysis, by utilizing molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, effects of two mutations (Thr526 to isoleucine and Gln545 to alanine) on the dynamic properties of Ago2 in the complex with the best inhibitor compound were investigated. RMSD, RMSF and h-bond number beside other analyses, highlighted the importance of the Thr526 and Gln545 mutations for the stability and flexibility of the (Ago2)/ligand complex.
One rent increase from disaster: Older renters living on the edge in Western Australia, Final Report
Creators: name: Fiedler, Jeff
name: Faulkner, Debbie
Publisher: name: The University of Adelaide
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This project has been conducted in light of extensive research that is warning of rapidly increasing housing problems facing older people. The three main factors are: an ageing population, reducing rates of home ownership and significant increases in older people relying on rental accommodation to age-in-place in their later years. The objective of the Project is to increase awareness of older people’s housing issues across Australia, improve older people’s access to affordable housing and ensure better availability of services that can help older people in housing difficulty. More specifically the aims of this project for Western Australia are to: Identify what is the level of homelessness amongst the older population in WA and who is at risk of homelessness in WA; examine the current state policy frameworks that impact on the housing circumstances of older people in WA; identify what are the housing options that currently exist, what are their main characteristics and how do older people apply for them; identify what services are available to help older people access affordable and appropriate housing in WA; propose appropriate recommendations that will lead to a systems reform approach to improve assistance and housing for low income older people.
Lattice QCD at finite temperature: Evidence for calorons from the eigenvectors of the Dirac operator
Creators: name: Gattringer, C.
name: Göckeler, M.
name: Rakow, P. E. L.
name: Schäfer, A.
name: Söldner, W.
name: Wettig, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the staggered Dirac operator in quenched lattice QCD in the vicinity of the deconfinement phase transition using the Lüscher-Weisz gauge action. The spectral and localization properties of the low-lying eigenmodes show characteristic differences between the Z_3 sectors above the critical temperature T_c. These findings can be interpreted in terms of calorons.
description: Lattice2001(hightemp), 3 pages, 2 figures
QCD calculations of thermal photon and dilepton production
Creators: name: Gelis, Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk, I review new developments of QCD calculations of photon and dilepton production rates in a Quark-Gluon plasma. All the rates are now known up to $O(α_s)$ both for photons and dileptons, thanks to the resummation of multiple scatterings. For dileptons, a direct numerical calculation on the lattice attempted recently will also be discussed.
description: 10 pages, 10 postscript figures, Plenary talk given at Quark-Matter 2002, July 18-24, 2002, Nantes, France
Probability representation of quantum dynamics using pseudostochastic maps
Creators: name: Kiktenko, E. O.
name: Malyshev, A. O.
name: Mastiukova, A. S.
name: Man'ko, V. I.
name: Fedorov, A. K.
name: Chruściński, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we consider a probability representation of quantum dynamics for finite-dimensional quantum systems with the use of pseudostochastic maps acting on true probability distributions. These probability distributions are obtained via symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measure (SIC-POVM) and can be directly accessible in an experiment. We provide SIC-POVM probability representations both for unitary evolution of the density matrix governed by the von Neumann equation and dissipative evolution governed by Markovian master equation. In particular, we discuss whereas the quantum dynamics can be simulated via classical random processes in terms of the conditions for the master equation generator in the SIC-POVM probability representation. We construct practical measures of nonclassicality non-Markovianity of quantum processes and apply them for studying experimental realization of quantum circuits realized with the IBM cloud quantum processor.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Is the gas in cooling-flows multi-phase?
Creators: name: Molendi, Silvano
name: Pizzolato, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Employing XMM-Newton EPIC data we perform a detailed comparison between different spectral models to test whether the gas in cooling-flows is multi-phase or not. Our findings all point in the same direction, namely that gas in cooling-flows does not show the wide distribution of temperatures expected from standard multi-phase models. This result has profound implications for cooling-flow models. Firstly, the large absorption column depths inferred by previous analysis of cooling-flow spectra are most likely an artifact following from the application of an incorrect spectral model to the data. Secondly, the mass deposition and mass flow are likely to be much smaller than previously thought. Last, but perhaps not least, the term "cooling-flow" cluster is probably no longer appropriate, as it describes a phenomenon of smaller entity and impact than previously thought. We propose to substitute it with that of "cool-core" cluster. The latter definition is less ambitious than the first, as it reflects only an observational fact rather than an inferred physical property, the flow, but has the undeniable advantage of being firmer.
description: To appear in ApJ
Ab initio molecular dynamics description of proton transfer at water-tricalcium silicate interface
Creators: name: Claverie, Jérôme
name: Bernard, Fabrice
name: Cordeiro, João Manuel Marques
name: Kamali-Bernard, Siham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the first time, an ab initio molecular dynamics simulation was performed to describe the C$_3$S/water interface. The simulation shows that oxides with favorable environment are protonated at first, creating very stable hydroxide groups. Proton transfers occur between water and silicates, and between water and hydroxides formed upon water dissociation on the surface. The typical lifetime of these events is on the same timescale than interconversion between Eigen and Zundel ions in bulk water. At the very early stage of the hydration encompassed by our simulation, silanol groups are very unstable and molecular adsorption of water is slightly more stable than dissociative adsorption.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures
Thermal conductivity of solid parahydrogen with methane admixtures
Creators: name: Krivchikov, A. I.
name: Sumarokov, V. V.
name: Mucha, J.
name: Stachowiak, P.
name: Jezowski, A.
name: Korolyuk, O. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal conductivity of solid parahydrogen crystal with methane admixtures has been measured in the temperature range 1.5 to 8 K. Solid samples were grown from the gas mixture at 13 K. Concentration of CH4 admixture molecules in the gas varied form 5 to 570 ppm. A very broad maximum of thermal conductivity with absolute value of about 110 W/(m K) is observed at 2.6 K. The data are interpreted by Callaway model considering phonons resonant scattering on quasi-local vibrations of CH4 molecules, phonon-grain boundary and phonon-phonon scattering processes. The increase of grain boundary scattering leads to the decrease of the maximum broadening. The analysis shows that the solid mixture of p-H2 and CH4 is a heterogeneous solution for CH4 concentration higher than 0.1 ppm.
description: 9 pages. to be published in LTP (2003)
MOESM4 of The tumor inflammation signature (TIS) is associated with anti-PD-1 treatment benefit in the CERTIM pan-cancer cohort
Creators: name: Damotte, Diane
name: Warren, Sarah
name: Arrondeau, Jennifer
name: Boudou-Rouquette, Pascaline
name: Mansuet-Lupo, Audrey
name: JĂŠrĂ´Me Biton
name: Ouakrim, Hanane
name: Alifano, Marco
name: Gervais, Claire
name: Bellesoeur, Audrey
name: Kramkimel, Nora
name: Tlemsani, Camille
name: Burroni, Barbara
name: AngĂŠline Duche
name: Letourneur, Franck
name: Si, Han
name: Halpin, Rebecca
name: Creasy, Todd
name: Herbst, Ronald
name: Ren, Xing
name: Morel, Pascale
name: Cesano, Alessandra
name: FranĂ§Ois Goldwasser
name: Leroy, Karen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Clinical characteristics of the NSCLC patients with TMB data.
Source Camera Verification from Strongly Stabilized Videos
Creators: name: Altinisik, Enes
name: Sencar, Husrev Taha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image stabilization performed during imaging and/or post-processing poses one of the most significant challenges to photo-response non-uniformity based source camera attribution from videos. When performed digitally, stabilization involves cropping, warping, and inpainting of video frames to eliminate unwanted camera motion. Hence, successful attribution requires the inversion of these transformations in a blind manner. To address this challenge, we introduce a source camera verification method for videos that takes into account the spatially variant nature of stabilization transformations and assumes a larger degree of freedom in their search. Our method identifies transformations at a sub-frame level, incorporates a number of constraints to validate their correctness, and offers computational flexibility in the search for the correct transformation. The method also adopts a holistic approach in countering disruptive effects of other video generation steps, such as video coding and downsizing, for more reliable attribution. Tests performed on one public and two custom datasets show that the proposed method is able to verify the source of 23-30% of all videos that underwent stronger stabilization, depending on computation load, without a significant impact on false attribution.
Wholesale Food Distribution Facilities for Philadelphia, Pa.
Creators: name: Agricultural Marketing Service, Marketing Research Division
name: Agricultural Marketing Service, Marketing Research Division
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report: This study of wholesale food marketing in Philadelphia was made at the request of the Greater Philadelphia Movement, a civic nonprofit organization which has recognized great social and economic advantages in a modern wholesale food distribution center. The purposes of the study were to ascertain the inadequacies of present marketing facilities and handling methods and to determine the kinds of marketing facilities that would be needed for the proper distribution of food at the lowest possible cost and with the least amount of effort, while at the same time maintaining the quality of the products. To determine the adequacy of Philadelphia's wholesale food markets for seven major commodity groups—fresh fruits and vegetables, poultry and eggs, seafoods, meats and meat products, butter and cheese, dry groceries, and frozen foods—information was obtained from wholesalers who handle these foods; buyers who patronize the markets; truckers hauling to and from them; railroad officials; and representatives of local, State, and Federal governments. The data thus obtained were analyzed, the inadequacies of present facilities were determined, and the kinds and amount of facilities needed were ascertained. This report sets forth the principal findings and recommendations.
Equilibrium configurations for epitaxially strained films and material voids in three-dimensional linear elasticity
Creators: name: Crismale, Vito
name: Friedrich, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We extend the results about existence of minimizers, relaxation, and approximation proven by Chambolle et al. in 2002 and 2007 for an energy related to epitaxially strained crystalline films, and by Braides, Chambolle, and Solci in 2007 for a class of energies defined on pairs of function-set. We study these models in the framework of three-dimensional linear elasticity, where a major obstacle to overcome is the lack of any 'a priori' assumption on the integrability properties of displacements. As a key tool for the proofs, we introduce a new notion of convergence for $(d{-}1)$-rectifiable sets that are jumps of $GSBD^p$ functions, called $σ^p_{\mathrm{sym}}$-convergence.
Tillicera tonkinensis Gerstmeier & Bernhard 2010, n. sp.
Creators: name: Gerstmeier, Roland
name: Bernhard, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Tillicera
Tillicera tonkinensis

description: Tillicera tonkinensis Gerstmeier & Bernhard n. sp.
(Figs. 17, 43–44)
 Specimens examined: Holotype: ♂. N-Vietnam, Tonkin, Cuc-Phuong NP 2.- 12.5.1991, leg. E. Jendek, coll. R. Gerstmeier (RGCM).
 Paratypes: Tonkin,(Coll. Ph Francois), Coll. L. Bedel 1922 (1 ex., MNHN); Vietnam, Tam dao, 27.5.– 2.6.1986, Vinh phu prov., lgt. J. Rybnícek (1 ex., RGCM).
 Length: 10mm (3 specimens).
 Collecting period: May.
 Head: Black, anterior part of clypeus, labrum and palpi brown, posterior part of clypeus brown to black; distributed with fine and diffuse punctation; cranium vested with short, erect, golden setae; head including eyes slightly broader than anterior width of pronotum.
 Antennae: Dark brown to black, A1 to A2 or A3 paler, predominantly vested with brown, depressed setae; antennomeres triangularly dilated from A4 onwards, A10 broader than long or as long as wide.
 Pronotum: Unicoloured red-brown to brown or black anterior to transverse depression; surface finely and diffusely punctate, coarser behind transverse depression; vested with anteriorly directed, short, erect, golden and dark setae; length:width ratio 1.07:1 (broadest at middle).
 Scutellum: Brown, finely punctate, vested with golden setae.
 Elytra: Black, base red-brown to brown, basal third with a yellowish pigmented transverse fascia, vested with dense, depressed, golden setae, apical third with a pale pigmented transverse fascia, vested with dense, depressed, golden setae, not reaching the lateral margin; basal half regularly and deeply punctate, punctation extending towards posterior transverse fascia, punctations bearing tubercles, diameter of punctures larger than interstices, apex densely and finely punctate; basal red-brown part with erect, golden and dark setae and shorter, depressed, golden setae, middle part with posteriorly directed and semi-decumbent, dark setae, apex longer golden and dark setae; length:width ratio 2.04:1.
 Legs: Brown, femora paler, but sometimes with a dark stripe, with erect, golden setae; tibiae with longitudinal carina.
 Ventral surface: Abdomen black to brown, thorax brown, with pale, depressed setae.
 Aedeagus: Very long and narrow, without tooth-like structures distinct (even when viewed at 500x magnification).
 Distribution: Vietnam.
 Etymology: Named after its region of occurrence; Tonkin is the former term for North Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Gerstmeier, Roland & Bernhard, Nadine, 2010, Revision of the genus Tillicera Spinola, 1841 (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 2359 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5308760