cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
‘State failure’ and the extraterritorial use of force in self-defence against non-state actors
Creators: name: Blachura, Anna
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: The thesis is first and foremost the examination of the notion and consequences of ‘state failure’ in international law. The disputes surrounding criteria for creation and recognition of states pertain to efforts to analyse legal and factual issues unravelling throughout the continuing existence of states, as best evidenced by the ‘state failure’ phenomenon. It is argued that although the ‘statehood’ of failed states remains uncontested, their sovereignty is increasingly considered to be dependent on the existence of effective governments. The second part of this thesis focuses on the examinations of the legal consequences of the continuing existence of failed states in the context of jus ad bellum. Since the creation of the United Nations the ability of states to resort to armed force without violating what might be considered as the single most important norm of international law, has been considerably limited. State failure and increasing importance of non-state actors has become a greatly topical issue within recent years in both scholarship and the popular imagination. There have been important legal developments within international law, which have provoked much academic, and in particular, legal commentary. On one level, the thesis contributes to this commentary. Despite the fact that the international community continues to perpetuate a notion of ‘statehood’ which allows the state-centric system of international law to exist, when dealing with practical and political realities of state failure, international law may no longer consider external sovereignty of states as an undeniable entitlement to statehood. Accordingly, the main research question of this thesis is whether the implicit and explicit invocation of the state failure provides sufficient legal basis for the intervention in self-defence against non-state actors in located in failed states. It has been argued that state failure has a profound impact, the extent of which is yet to be fully explored, on the modern landscape of peace and security.
The Survivor Average Causal Effect for Outcomes Truncated by Death in RCTs - Simulation study protocol
Creators: name: von Felten, Stefanie
name: Vanetta, Chiara
name: Held, Leonhard
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Protocol of simulation study comparing the survivor average causal effect (SACE) with complete case analysis and analysis based on multiple imputation. Study conducted as master thesis of Chiara Vanetta, supervised by Prof. Leonhard Held and Stefanie von Felten Further work to improve the study, including changes to the study protocol used here, is ongoing.
Quantum discord protection from amplitude damping decoherence
Creators: name: Yune, Jiwon
name: Hong, Kang-Hee
name: Lim, Hyang-Tag
name: Lee, Jong-Chan
name: Kwon, Osung
name: Han, Sang-Wook
name: Kim, Yong-Su
name: Moon, Sung
name: Kim, Yoon-Ho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement is known to be an essential resource for many quantum information processes. However, it is now known that some quantum features may be acheived with quantum discord, a generalized measure of quantum correlation. In this paper, we study how quantum discord, or more specifically, the measures of entropic discord and geometric discord are affected by the influence of amplitude damping decoherence. We also show that a protocol deploying weak measurement and quantum measurement reversal can effectively protect quantum discord from amplitude damping decoherence, enabling to distribute quantum correlation between two remote parties in a noisy environment.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
[Book Review] The coming of World War Three: Volume 1
Creators: name: Alexander, Don
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Peace movements
subject: Militarism
subject: Nuclear disarmament
subject: Antinuclear movement
subject: Social history--Book reviews

description: Book review
description: Don Alexander reviews "The coming of World War Three, Volume 1" by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1986).
description: This review was originally published as: Alexander, D. (1987). [Review of the book The coming of World War Three: Volume 1, by D.I. Roussopoulos]. Canadian Dimension, 21(3), 24. More information about Canadian Dimension can be found at: https://canadiandimension.com/.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5505/Alexander.CD.21.3.pdf?sequence=3
A lack of short period binaries in the young massive-star forming region M17
Creators: name: , Derkink
name: , Ramírez-Tannus
name: , Kaper
name: De Koter,
name: , Backs
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In the last few years significant progress has been made towards an understanding of the formation of massive close binaries. Some of the observational studies leading to this progress are the detection of a very low velocity dispersion among the massive stars in the very young region M17 as well as a positive trend of velocity dispersion with age in Galactic clusters. The very low velocity dispersion observed in M17 could be explained by two scenarios: 1) The lack of binaries amongst the stars in M17, or 2) a binary fraction similar to those observed in other, older Galactic clusters, but larger binary separations. In order to determine which scenario is causing the strikingly low velocity dispersion in M17, we carried out a multi-epoch spectroscopic campaign to determine the real binary fraction of 22 massive stars in this region. In this talk I present our results, showing that the binary fraction is consistent with that of other Galactic clusters indicating that the low velocity dispersion is due to a large separation among the massive binaries. This is in line with a GRAVITY study of six young O stars in M17 with a binary fraction of 100%. The results point to a migration scenario in which massive stars are born at large separation and harden within the first million years of evolution. Such an inward migration may either be driven by an interaction with a remnant accretion disk or with other young stellar objects present in the system.
Springing the trap: [Album Review] Live 1975-85
Creators: name: Alexander, Don
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Sound recordings--Reviews
subject: Music--Reviews
subject: Musical criticism
subject: Rock groups--New Jersey

description: Album review
description: Don Alexander reviews the album "Live 1975-85" by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (New York: Columbia Records, 1986).
description: This review was originally published as: Alexander, D. (1987). Springing the trap: [Review of the album Live 1975-85, by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band]. Canadian Dimension, 21(2), 19-21. More information about Canadian Dimension can be found at: https://canadiandimension.com/.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5506/Alexander.CD.21.2.pdf?sequence=3
Firm-level effects of H-2B employment
Creators: name: Clemens, Michael
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Labor Economics
subject: Economics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The goal of this research is to measure the firm-level effects of hiring low-skill foreign workers on temporary work visas, using exogenous variation in hiring created by a U.S. government-run lottery in January 2021. That naturally randomized lottery, run by the Department of Labor, determined which firms were able to apply for Foreign Labor Certification, a necessary precondition for hiring workers on the H-2B temporary non-agricultural work visa for jobs starting on or after April 1,2021 and ending before October 1, 2021.
A Literature Review on Improve Male Involvement in HIV Testing in Men Who Have Sex With Men in China
Creators: name: Li, Xiaoqian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: HIV prevalence is increasing rapidly among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. Meanwhile, many MSM in China are currently married or will get married, posing a potential HIV threat to both men and women involved in this relationship. This article reviews existing studies in literature on the barriers to HIV testing and current interventions on HIV/AIDS in China. Most recent studies have been concentrated in South and South-West China. Gay-related stigma and discrimination and low perception of risk or threat were identified as major barriers to HIV testing among Chinese MSM. The most commonly used intervention strategy was indi-vidual-oriented HIV-related knowledge education and behavioral skills training. All studies re-ported positive intervention effects including improved HIV-related knowledge, increased con-dom use, reduced needle sharing, and reduced sexually transmitted infections (STI). Literature also suggested a lack of intervention among other at-risk populations such as female sex workers and migrant workers. Last, most studies lack a rigorous evaluation design, adequate follow-up, sufficient outcome measurement, and multi-faceted structural interventions.
O'ZBEKISTONDA PENSIYA TIZIMI MOLIYAVIY BARQARORLIGINI TA'MINLASHNING DOLZARB MASALALARI
Creators: name: Tursunov, Zohidxo'ja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mamlakatimiz mustaqillikka erishgan kundan boshlab, iqtisodiy islohotlar jarayonida asosiy e’tibor ijtimoiy himoyani ta’minlash, aholining turmush darajasini oshirish, aholi o‘rtasidagi tabaqalanishning oldini olish hamda kambag‘allik darajasini kamaytirishga qaratilgan. Shu maqsadda qator kompleks chora-tadbirlar amalga oshirib kelinmoqda.
Across the Greater Vancouver Regional District in four days: The mobile workshop trek
Creators: name: Suszezwiez, Sharleen
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Planning--Canada--Congresses
subject: Planning--Fieldwork--British Columbia--Metro Vancouver Regional District
subject: Planning--Fieldwork--British Columbia--Greater Vancouver Regional District

description: In addition to having opportunities to attend the many indoor presentations at the "2002: Making Waves" conference in Burnaby, B.C., delegates were offered ten mobile workshops that traversed the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) and explored its diversity.
description: This article features highlights from three workshops which were part of the CIP's 2002 conference in Burnaby, B.C.: "Smart growth": Maple Ridge case study; Brunette-Fraser Greenway cycle tour; and Sustainable urban living: Vancouver's False Creek neighbourhoods.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5508/Article008.pdf?sequence=3
Ceraunocochlis australis Yoo 1994, n.sp.
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Acteoninidae
Ceraunocochlis

description: Ceraunocochlis australis n.sp. PI. l7 figs 6-10 Description. Shell very small, subulate, high spired, thin, axis of shell slightly curved, anomphalous. Protoconch of about 1Y2 smooth whorls, flattened top slightly tilted with strongly arched whorl profile; transition from protoconch to teleoconch sharp and gently sinuated. Teleoconch of about 7 smooth whorls, whorl profile flat to arched, suture shallow but distinct; length of whorl increases with growth. Aperture sharp triangular in shape; columellar lip merging with the parietal lip, thin, straight; distinct anterior siphonal notch; columellar fold obscured; outer lip straight, slightly prosocline; base pointed and extended. Types. Holotype (F78490) and 3 figured paratypes (F78491). There are 46 unfigured additional specimens (F78492) from the type locality. Type locality. 150 m west of 'Marohn' homestead, 4 km south-west of Gundy, NSW (Locality 28). Stratigraphic position. Bioclastic limestone, upper part of the Dangarfield Formation. Geographic distribution. Type locality only. Geological age. Late Tournaisian. Etymology. Derived from the Latin australis meaning southern. Remarks. This species differs from Ceraunocochlis tenuis n.sp. in having more subulate shell, higher whorls and a sharp-angled aperture. The type species, Ceraunocochlis fulminula Knight, differs from australis in having the final whorl occupying more than half of the shell length.
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
Pulsar lensing geometry
Creators: name: Liu, Siqi
name: Pen, Ue-Li
name: Macquart, J-P
name: Brisken, Walter
name: Deller, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our analysis of archival VLBI data of PSR 0834+06 revealed that its scintillation properties can be precisely modelled using the inclined sheet model (Pen & Levin 2014), resulting in two distinct lens planes. These data strongly favour the grazing sheet model over turbulence as the primary source of pulsar scattering. This model can reproduce the parameters of the observed diffractive scintillation with an accuracy at the percent level. Comparison with new VLBI proper motion results in a direct measure of the ionized ISM screen transverse velocity. The results are consistent with ISM velocities local to the PSR 0834+06 sight-line (through the Galaxy). The simple 1D structure of the lenses opens up the possibility of using interstellar lenses as precision probes for pulsar lens mapping, precision transverse motions in the ISM, and new opportunities for removing scattering to improve pulsar timing. We describe the parameters and observables of this double screen system. While relative screen distances can in principle be accurately determined, a global conformal distance degeneracy exists that allows a rescaling of the absolute distance scale. For PSR B0834+06, we present VLBI astrometry results that provide (for the fist time) a direct measurement of the distance of the pulsar. For targets where independent distance measurements are not available, which are the cases for most of the recycled millisecond pulsars that are the targets of precision timing observations, the degeneracy presented in the lens modelling could be broken if the pulsar resides in a binary system.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures
THE BIOMATERIALS SPECTRUM – exploring emerging pathways for textile design education
Creators: name: Gjøderum Hartvigsen, Monica Louise
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2023
Subjects: Textile and fashion design

description: This short paper explores the role of biomaterials in design education especially for textile students and the potential and challenges they pose. Through a biomaterials spectrum looking at how design students approach biomaterials and relating it to my PhD research, I have created a spectrum to explore where design students interested in working with biomaterials can start and which routes, they can take to advance their knowledge and skills. The approaches in the spectrum are related to the workshop space it requires increasing the complexity through the spectrum. In the material spectrum it is envisioned how engagement with biomaterials could be planned covering easily accessible DIY approaches to more advanced collaborative-dependent approaches using examples from Design School Kolding students as well as insights from my own PhD project.
Alternative development standards: Practical tools for sustainable land development
Creators: name: Von Hausen, Michael
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Sustainable urban development--British Columbia
subject: City planning--British Columbia
subject: Land use, Urban--British Columbia

description: Challenges associated with urban sprawl and pressures of growth continue to mount across North America. Fuelling these challenges are outmoded land development standards that over-engineer and over-design community infrastructure, including roads, parking, parks and systems for stormwater and wastewater. The resulting systems are costly to build and maintain.
description: Part of "Community sustainability/Développement durable de la communauté" section of issue.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5509/Article008.pdf?sequence=3
Local-time representation of path integrals
Creators: name: Jizba, Petr
name: Zatloukal, Vaclav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a local-time path-integral representation for a generic one-dimensional time-independent system. In particular, we show how to rephrase the matrix elements of the Bloch density matrix as a path integral over x-dependent local-time profiles. The latter quantify the time that the sample paths x(t) in the Feynman path integral spend in the vicinity of an arbitrary point x. Generalization of the local-time representation that includes arbitrary functionals of the local time is also provided. We argue that the results obtained represent a powerful alternative to the traditional Feynman-Kac formula, particularly in the high and low temperature regimes. To illustrate this point, we apply our local-time representation to analyze the asymptotic behavior of the Bloch density matrix at low temperatures. Further salient issues, such as connections with the Sturm-Liouville theory and the Rayleigh-Ritz variational principle are also discussed.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure, RevTeX4
MAVEN IUVS and EUVM data for the wave 3 structure
Creators: name: Fu, Menghao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 510107
subject: Planetary science (excl. solar system and planetary geology)

description: MAVEN IUVS and EUVM data used to study the wave 3 structure in the Martian upper atmosphere
Emotion Regulation Impacts on Social Network Diversity
Creators: name: Butler, Taurean
name: Stanoi, Ovidia
name: Kang, Yoona
name: Pei, Rui
name: Carreras-Tartak, José
name: Lydon-Staley, David
name: Mucha, Peter
name: Ochsner, Kevin
name: Falk, Emily
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Race and Ethnicity
subject: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
subject: Gender and Sexuality
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Sustained social connection with diverse individuals may require individuals to be better at dealing with negative interactions that may occur within diverse communities. Emotion regulation, the ability to modulate or control one’s emotion or set of emotions, may be important to fostering diverse connections at the individual level in heterogeneous groups. If individuals are better able to manage conflict and regulate negative affective states, through emotion regulation, then they may be able to mitigate negative associations to different others following intragroup conflict or overcome the tendency to seek out homophilic connections that emerge in diverse communities. This study will examine this relationship by asking whether difficulty with emotion regulation, and one's tendency to utilize different emotion regulation strategies influences the diversity of their social networks within an organizational group.
Quantum oscillations without a Fermi surface and the anomalous de Haas-van Alphen effect
Creators: name: Knolle, Johannes
name: Cooper, Nigel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The de Haas-van Alphen effect (dHvAe), describing oscillations of the magnetization as a function of magnetic field, is commonly assumed to be a definite sign for the presence of a Fermi surface (FS). Indeed, the effect forms the basis of a well-established experimental procedure for accurately measuring FS topology and geometry of metallic systems, with parameters commonly extracted by fitting to the Lifshitz-Kosevich (LK) theory based on Fermi liquid theory. Here we show that, in contrast to this canonical situation, there can be quantum oscillations even for band insulators of certain types. We provide simple analytic formulas describing the temperature dependence of the quantum oscillations in this setting, showing strong deviations from LK theory. We draw connections to recent experiments and discuss how our results can be used in future experiments to accurately determine e.g. hybridization gaps in heavy fermion systems.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
title:  Forza. Dalla sottomissione all’ascolto di sé
Creators: name: Chiricosta  , Alessandra
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: Contro stereotipate concezioni che attribuiscono alla donna debolezza e fragilità il saggio esplora un senso differente della forza, che le donne hanno sperimentato a partire dal proprio corpo-realtà. Un altro genere di forza, che aprirà nuovi scenari, riscriverà i codici di una ‘funzione guerriera‘ femminile come capacità trasformativa per tutte e tutti. Uscendo dal dominio della forza virile, essere forti, fisicamente, mentalmente, emotivamente, significa allenarsi a un’auto-coltivazione che vede il conflitto non come prevaricazione, ma come criterio di ascolto, di sé, degli altri e del contesto. La forza si esprime nel saper trovare equilibri dinamici spiraliformi nei giochi delle spinte contrastanti, che si co-appartengono sempre.

Against stereotypical conceptions attributing weakness and fragility to women, the essay explores a different sense of strength, which women have experienced from their own body-reality. Another kind of strength that will open new scenarios, rewrite the codes of a female ‘warrior function’ as a transformative capacity for all. Leaving the domain of virile strength, being strong, physically, mentally, emotionally, means training in self-cultivation, seeing conflict not as prevarication, but as a criterion for self-listening, listening to others and to the context. Strength is expressed in knowing how to find dynamic spiral balances in the play of contrasting forces, which always belong together.
description: B@belonline vol. speciale 2021 Il nuovo atlante di Sophia/ Sophia’s New Atlas
A Study of the Links Between Trauma Exposure, Risk-Taking Behaviors, Mental Health Service Utilization and Symptoms: Comparisons Among Native American, African American, and Caucasian Adolescents
Creators: name: Akinola, Oluseyi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objectives: To undertake a comparison of the links between trauma exposure, risk-taking behaviors, presenting problems/symptoms and mental health service utilization patterns among Native American, African American, and White adolescents. Methodology: Quantitative data from children and families across 56 sites within the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), collected over a period of five years, 2004-2008 and analyzed using SAS statistical software. The sample size of this study, (n= 2909) was limited to adolescents aged 12-18 who identified as Native American (126), African American (1,250) and White (1,533) at baseline. Multiple measures of psychology and traumatic stress including the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and risk-taking behaviors (e.g., substance use, suicidality, depression, illness, serious injury) were evaluated; analyses adjusted for age, number of trauma types, gender and clinical center. Results: Native American adolescents experienced a significantly higher mean number of trauma types (4.7) as compared to White adolescents (4.1) and African American (3.4) adolescents. Specifically, Native American adolescents were more likely to experience sexual abuse, sexual assault/rape, serious injury, bereavement/loss/ separation, and physical assault when compared to the other groups of adolescents. Native American adolescents also demonstrated disproportionately high rates of risk behaviors (e.g., substance abuse) and mental health problems (e.g., PTSD) compared with African American and White adolescents. Interestingly, among this group of trauma exposed youth, White adolescents had the highest rates of suicidality, but they were not significantly different from Native American and African American adolescents. Conclusion: Given the high rates of trauma exposure, risk behaviors, and mental health problems in this sample of ethnically diverse youth, and ethnic/cultural variations across these domains, future research should explore potential differences in trauma related symptoms and problems, as well as, other health related disparities across these three groups of youth. Moreover, the findings underscore the need to develop practices and policies that can be used to prevent, identify early, and/or treatadolescents at risk to ensure accessibility across ethnic/cultural groups and minimize trauma-related sequela and disparities. Keywords: Native American, American Indian, Alaskan Native, African American, trauma, risk behaviors, adolescents, mental health, and health disparities.
“Considering there’s supposedly nothing wrong with me, it’s not a life”: Women’s Narratives of Distress, Visiting Herbalists, and Being Well in the 21st Century
Creators: name: Yates, Adrian
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016
Subjects: western herbal practice
women
distress
narratives
thematic analysis
metaphors
isolation
shame
guilt
accessibility
support

description: Distress can have a profoundly negative impact on the well-being of women (who are the main receivers of treatment for distress). Distress also poses a huge financial problem for the United Kingdom, the cost of which is predicted to reach over £26bn by 2026. A growing body of research has shown that various medicinal plants have potential to treat different aspects of distress. However, there is little research investigating the patient experience of western herbal practice (WHP), and none investigating women’s experiences of WHP for distress. In response, this longitudinal study utilised interviews with twenty-six women who were visiting herbalists for distress across the south-east of The United Kingdom to elicit their stories of distress, as well as their experiences of WHP. The narratives were analysed from a constructionist standpoint, using inductive thematic analysis. The participants’ narratives highlighted the profound impact of everyday distress, whilst feelings associated with distress (anxiety, low mood, isolation, shame and guilt) were frequently communicated via the use of metaphors. These negative feelings, often combined with unsuccessful biomedical encounters, frequently led to the women feeling desperate when first visiting a herbalist. The participants’ experiences of WHP showed that an accessible practitioner and good therapeutic relationship combined with flexible herbal treatment, allowed women with diverse stories of distress to overcome feelings of desperation. Ongoing support allowed the women to feel like they had a safety net as they journeyed from a place of distress, back into the wider world. These findings were supported by more unusual negative accounts, which showed how the herbal therapeutic process could be unsuccessful if elements were missing. This research is of significance as it helps to deepen our understanding of women’s experiences of distress – particularly perceptions of stigma which surround feelings of shame (linked to an inability to cope) and guilt (linked to the perceived impact of distress on others). The research also has relevance for WHP, as it highlights which positive aspects of WHP are of particular importance to women patients who are living with distress.
New approaches through the practise of drawing: Developing agency through online delivery
Creators: name: Bolderson, Kay
name: Clayfield, Camilla
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2023
Subjects: Textile and fashion design

description: At the University of Derby all drawing sessions for BA Textile Design students have been taking place online since September 2020 in order to prioritise campus time for studio use. These sessions have been delivered synchronously and this change, whilst a challenge for staff and students alike, has proven more successful than anticipated and has affected student practice in some interesting ways. This paper seeks to set out these changes, bring together some initial discussion of the impact they have had, and look at how this might affect how drawing is taught within Textile Design courses at University level in the future.
 As academics we wanted to inform the way drawing was viewed by students who often see it simply a means to an end, a component that is assessed and therefore cursory. Engagement in the practise of drawing is evident in student design outcomes; in our experience students with adequate observation, analysis, development, evaluation and communication in their sketch books are the ones with the most distinctive, successful design outcomes.
 The introduction of bi-weekly synchronous drawing sessions has had a huge impact on the confidence, individual handwriting and skill development of all students who have engaged with the sessions. A sense of an online visual community has developed between all three levels of the Textile Design course and in looking more broadly at the long term benefits, online delivery, accessed from any device, anywhere allows for a level of accessibility and inclusivity that can sometimes be less evident in a traditional studio setting.
Hérnia inguinal pediátrica: reparo cirúrgico e complicações graves
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, BEATRIZ CARVALHO
name: MAIA, PEDRO HENRIQUE FERREIRA
name: FERREIRA, RAYSSA MIRANDA DE OLIVEIRA
name: ALMEIDA, KELLY CRISTINA
name: MOREIRA, LUIZA CHECON
name: DE OLIVEIRA, MARCO ANTÔNIO BARBOSA
name: SOUZA, WESLEY BARBOSA
name: MARCIANO, JOÃO VITOR SILVEIRA
name: FREIRE, FABRÍCIO
name: BITTENCOURT, RODRIGO AUGUSTO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: PERIÓDICO MÉDICO NÃO INDEXADO Á NENHUMA BASE DE DADOS
Magnetization switching by spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet/ferromagnet bilayer system
Creators: name: Fukami, Shunsuke
name: Zhang, Chaoliang
name: DuttaGupta, Samik
name: Ohno, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin-orbit torque (SOT)-induced magnetization switching shows promise for realizing ultrafast and reliable spintronics devices. Bipolar switching of perpendicular magnetization via SOT is achieved under an in-plane magnetic field collinear with an applied current. Typical structures studied so far comprise a nonmagnet/ferromagnet (NM/FM) bilayer, where the spin Hall effect in the NM is responsible for the switching. Here we show that an antiferromagnet/ferromagnet (AFM/FM) bilayer system also exhibits a SOT large enough to switch the magnetization of FM. In this material system, thanks to the exchange-bias effect of the AFM, we observe the switching under no applied field by using an antiferromagnetic PtMn and ferromagnetic Co/Ni multilayer with a perpendicular easy axis. Furthermore, tailoring the stack achieves a memristor-like behaviour where a portion of the reversed magnetization can by controlled in an analogue manner. The AFM/FM system is thus a promising building block for SOT devices as well as providing an attractive pathway towards neuromorphic computing.
The R code for the study"Prioritization of risk genes for Alzheimer's disease: an analysis framework using spatial and temporal gene expression data in the human brain based on support vector machinePrioritization of risk genes for Alzheimer's disease: an analysis framework using spatial and temporal gene expression data in the human brain based on support vector machine"
Creators: name: , Fang
name: , Wang
name: , Wen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: machine learning
Alzheimer's disease
risk gene prioritization
gene expression patterns

description: The R code was written for the study "Prioritization of risk genes for Alzheimer's disease: an analysis framework using spatial and temporal gene expression data in the human brain based on support vector machinePrioritization of risk genes for Alzheimer's disease: an analysis framework using spatial and temporal gene expression data in the human brain based on support vector machine", this code document shows the whole process of data processing and analysis, as a reference for researchers who want to msimulate or reproduce the study.
description: The names of files and their paths can be changed.
Neural Network Classifier data for a Magnetic Fibonacci Quasicrystal
Creators: name: Cornaglia, Pablo S.
name: Nuñez, Matías
name: García, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neural Network
Fibonacci quasicrystal
Magnetic Phase Predictor

description: Complementary data for the manuscript: "Unveiling Exotic Magnetic Phases in Fibonacci Quasicrystalline Stacking of Ferromagnetic Layers through Machine Learning" by Pablo S. Cornaglia, Matias Nuñez, and D. J. Garcia We provide the data to use a Neural Network to predict the magnetic ground state for a given set of coupling parameters for the Fibonacci magnetic quasicrystal. The associated Python is provided in: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8185022
Erosion of synchronization: Coupling heterogeneity and network structure
Creators: name: Skardal, Per Sebastian
name: Taylor, Dane
name: Sun, Jie
name: Arenas, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the dynamics of network-coupled phase oscillators in the presence of coupling frustration. It was recently demonstrated that in heterogeneous network topologies, the presence of coupling frustration causes perfect phase synchronization to become unattainable even in the limit of infinite coupling strength. Here, we consider the important case of heterogeneous coupling functions and extend previous results by deriving analytical predictions for the total erosion of synchronization. Our analytical results are given in terms of basic quantities related to the network structure and coupling frustration. In addition to fully heterogeneous coupling, where each individual interaction is allowed to be distinct, we also consider partially heterogeneous coupling and homogeneous coupling in which the coupling functions are either unique to each oscillator or identical for all network interactions, respectively. We demonstrate the validity of our theory with numerical simulations of multiple network models, and highlight the interesting effects that various coupling choices and network models have on the total erosion of synchronization. Finally, we consider some special network structures with well-known spectral properties, which allows us to derive further analytical results.
Mind Wandering and External Distraction via Irrelevant Speech
Creators: name: Rummel, Jan
name: Steindorf, Lena
name: Röer, Jan
name: wallner, frederik
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Mind Wandering

description: In this study we are going to investigate irrelevant speech effects on self-reported mind wandering.
“My people seem to be falling to bits”: impotence, memory, and the co-possibility of body and mind in Samuel Beckett’s works
Creators: name: Charalambous, Michelle
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: The present thesis examines the representation of the impotent body and mind in a selection of Samuel Beckett’s dramatic and prose works. Aiming to show that the body-mind relation is represented as one of co-implication and co-constitution, this thesis also takes the representation of memory in Beckett’s work as a key site for examining this relation. The thesis seeks to address the centrality of the body and embodied subjectivity in the experience of memory and indeed in signification and experience more generally. In these terms, Chapter 1 analyzes the representation of the figure of the couple in Beckett’s drama of the 1950s – as a metaphor of the body-mind relation – and, in light of Jacques Derrida’s theory of the supplement and Bernard Stiegler’s theory of technics, it discusses how the relationship between physical body and mind is defined by an essential supplementarity that is revealed even (or especially) in their apparent separation. Furthermore, the impotence that marks both elements in Beckett’s writings, when it is seen to lay bare this intrication, can be viewed, in important respects, as enabling rather than merely privative. Chapter 2 discusses the somatic structure of memory as represented in four of Beckett’s later dramatic works composed in the 1970s and 1980s. Similarly to Chapter 1, the second chapter focuses on the more “extreme” representation of bodily impotence in Beckett and demonstrates that rather than a merely “mental” recollection, memory in the work of Beckett is presented as necessarily experienced through, and shaped by, the body itself. In this light, then, it is shown that despite the impotence that marks the body in Beckett’s work of the 1970s and 1980s, the body is a necessary site of memory and retains or discovers a kind of activity in this impotence. Finally, Chapter 3 shifts its attention to Beckett’s prose works in order to explore how such works, reliant on language rather than the physical performance of actors onstage, sustain questions of embodied subjectivity at their heart. Specifically, the chapter argues that, on closer inspection, Beckett’s “literature of the unword” is not an abstention from meaning and its materialization, but one that paradoxically foregrounds that “something” which remains an essential part of it, that is, an embodied subjectivity.
The Health Belief Model Constructs as Mediating Factors of Postpartum Family Planning Knowledge and Contraceptive Behavior
Creators: name: Silverstein, Hannah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Objective: To investigate the Health Belief Model (HBM) constructs as potential underlying factors mediating the relationship between postpartum family planning (PPFP) knowledge and contraceptive use. Methods: This was a secondary analysis of baseline data from an intervention study conducted in Rwanda among postpartum women. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed to evaluate whether the HBM appropriately framed underlying factors associated with PPFP. The EFA produced anticipated results; underlying factors were evaluated as mediators of PPFP knowledge and use. Results: Increased knowledge was associated with contraceptive use (OR: 2.02). Adjusting for perceived susceptibility and barriers reduced the odds of use to 1.93 and 1.90, respectively. Adjusting for perceived benefits and severity did not produce significant results in contraceptive behavior. Conclusions: Perceived susceptibility and perceived barriers significantly mediate the relationship between PPFP knowledge and contraceptive use.
Diversity and Inclusivity in British Vogue
Creators: name: Papathanasiou, Thomai
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2023
Subjects: Textile and fashion design

description: Since their inception and rise, fashion publications have served as a medium to provide escapism and inform the audiences about fashion trends. They have also dictated beauty standards across the decades.
 British Vogue was first published in 1916 and is still considered one of the most influential and successful fashion magazines in the world.
 Edward Enninful’s appointment as editor in chief of British Vogue in 2017 marked the beginning of a new era for the traditional fashion publication. Enninful is a passionate advocate for diversity in the fashion industry, having been honoured with an OBE for Services to Diversity in the Fashion Industry in 2016. Under his leadership the magazine has featured cover stars such as activist Malala Yousafzai, actress Judi Dench and footballer Marcus Rashford.
 The purpose of this paper is to examine the contents of the September 2021 through to February 2022 issues of the magazine and review if there is genuine representation and inclusivity in the publication under this change in leadership.
 One sample from each edition has been selected and has been reviewed using critical visual methodology for images and critical discourse analysis for written elements to determine to what extent diversity and inclusion are promoted through the magazine.
Effect of Low-Damage Inductively Coupled Plasma on Shallow NV Centers in Diamond
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Felipe Fávaro
name: Momenzadeh, S. Ali
name: Wang, Ya
name: Konuma, Mitsuharu
name: Markham, Matthew
name: Edmonds, Andrew M.
name: Denisenko, Andrej
name: Wrachtrup, Jörg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Near-surface nitrogen-vacancy ({NV}) centers in diamond have been successfully employed as atomic-sized magnetic field sensors for external spins over the last years. A key challenge is still to develop a method to bring NV centers at nanometer proximity to the diamond surface while preserving their optical and spin properties. To that aim we present a method of controlled diamond etching with nanometric precision using an oxygen inductively coupled plasma (ICP) process. Importantly, no traces of plasma-induced damages to the etched surface could be detected by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and confocal photoluminescence microscopy techniques. In addition, by profiling the depth of NV centers created by 5.0 keV of nitrogen implantation energy, no plasma-induced quenching in their fluorescence could be observed. Moreover, the developed etching process allowed even the channeling tail in their depth distribution to be resolved. Furthermore, treating a 12C isotopically purified diamond revealed a threefold increase in T2 times for NV centers with <4 nm of depth (measured by NMR signal from protons at the diamond surface) in comparison to the initial oxygen-terminated surface.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Everyday Urban Life in Queensland 2080: Speculative Design practises through a Fashion Design lens for climate resilient communities.
Creators: name: Hopper, Cait
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2023
Subjects: Textile and fashion design

description: Speculative Design is a discipline aimed at creating a tangible link, the perceptual bridge, between the present and possible futures (Auger, 2013). By taking recognisable, contemporary artefacts and altering them or changing their situational context, speculative designers aim to provoke audiences into considering how their actions here and now might lead to a future we greatly want to achieve or perhaps avoid at all costs (Dunne & Raby, 2013). Everyday Urban Life in the Context of Queensland 2080 is a project grounding the global problem of climate change in a local context for the people of Queensland. Through future casting, garment design and digital artefacts, a vision of climate resilient communities in Queensland in 2080 is created.
 The project builds on the existing fashion industry in Queensland, local climate projections and innovations in fashion including design for disassembly, digital-only fashion and biosynthetic fibres. This work uses a speculative approach to explore the sociotechnical themes of Climate Sustainment, Industry 4.0 and Circular Economies through a fashion and textiles lens in the local context of Queensland, Australia. As a result, the contributions of this paper are threefold: 1) Highlights opportunities for fashion education to incorporate cross disciplinary design practises like speculative design to make tangible the need for climate resilient thinking in future fashion practises; 2) Provokes wider society to consider the impacts to their local environment from their fashion consumption habits; and, 3) Provides considerations for Queensland fashion designers and design students around emerging materials, practises and technologies for sustainable garment production.
Evidence-based Approaches to Understanding Daily Fantasy Sports Activities
Creators: name: Louderback, Eric
name: Edson, Timothy
name: LaPlante, Debi
name: Tom, Matthew
name: Nelson, Sarah
name: Philander, Kahlil
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: daily fantasy sports
subject: DFS
subject: fantasy sports

description: This project examines player behaviors and engagement with daily fantasy sports using evidence-based research approaches.
Last century rainfall variations in northern Tuscany (Italy) and possible effects on karstic strategic groundwater.
Creators: name: Nigro, Matteo
name: Giannecchini, Roberto
name: Matia Menichini
name: Doveri, Marco
name: Barsanti, Michele
name: Raco, Brunella
name: Lunini, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: climate change
precipitation variability
Apuan Alps
north-western Tuscany

description: Abstract and Poster presentation accepted at the 5° Flowpath Conference Napoli 1-3 December 2021. Abstract: Climate change is one of the main factors affecting groundwater resources, making an assessment necessary for the future exploitation. Recent past climate changes evaluation requires an extensive and distributed meteorological database.
 Some of the principal groundwater systems in Tuscany (particularly the karst aquifer systems of the Apuan Alps) are present in its northern part. Also, Tuscany has a densely distributed rain gauges network (some datasets longer than 100 years).
 Bartolini et al. (2014) and D’Oria et al. (2017) already identified precipitation reduction and temperature increase in the whole of Tuscany and its northern portion for the last century.
 In this work, we investigate the time evolution of rainfall in northern Tuscany in the last century both for quantity and dynamics.
 The number of rain gauges chosen for this analysis was heavily increased and deeply controlled for datasets continuity and homogeneity.
 We studied the precipitation data in terms of mean annual precipitation differences between the periods 1990/2019 – 1921/1950 and 1990/2019 – 1951/1980; detection of trends in the yearly and seasonal precipitation via the Mann-Kendall test; rainfall events variations; spatial distribution of the precipitation trend; changing in single precipitation events extension through the last seventy years.
 The precipitation reduction, identified in the previous studies, is confirmed and seasonally featured. We highlight variations in the rainfall events for different rain-depth intervals. We estimate the last century annual precipitation decrease to be around 10% of the Mean Annual Precipitation in the past thirty years. However, this variation seems not evenly distributed in the analysed area.
 The observed evolution in local hydrological regime represents a serious threat to the strategic karst groundwater of the area, which is sensitive to hydro-climate conditions (Doveri et al., 2019). The precipitation decrease and the change in distribution are already modifying the flow rate and regime in some major karst springs.