cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scale, ecological attention, and the it-narrative
Creators: name: Law, Anita Carmen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: My thesis proposes a reconsideration of the ways in which we deploy formal analysis to analyze canonically minor texts and genres. In doing so, it reacts to and departs from a Jamesonian vein of material-historical formalism that treats minor texts as the mere evolutionary dead-end, or the ossified remnants of what was once “authentic artistic expression.” Unlike canonical texts, which have both the potential to be historicized and the ability to make claims to deep philosophical insight and formal innovativeness, minor texts tend to signify in more circumscribed ways. My thesis asks: how can we shift the terms upon which we evaluate minor genres without completely flattening out distinctions between texts or rendering aesthetic judgment void or purely subjective? Following in the footsteps of diverse theorists such as Franco Moretti, Anne-Lise François, Eve Sedgwick, and Sianne Ngai, and inspired by the inventive ways in which they broach the analysis of minor texts, my project seeks to generate formal-theoretical frameworks to apply to the analysis of the it-narrative, frameworks that would be able to sustain the considerable pressures of originality and significant signification associated with formal analysis. Rather than approaching minor genres and major works as separate but equally valued objects of study, my study brackets questions of value in favour of (1) scale: questions of relative size which, while still dependent on notions of form, depend less on a critic’s sense of aesthetic discrimination and (2) ecological attention: issues of critical disposition, and how a critic’s relation to the forms that he or she interacts with manifests itself in practice.
Anomalous quark-gluon chromomagnetic interaction and high energy $ρ$-meson electroproduction
Creators: name: Korchagin, Nikolai
name: Kochelev, Nikolai
name: Nikolaev, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that existence of a large anomalous chromomagnetic moment of quark induced by non-perturbative structure of QCD leads to the additional contribution to exclusive $ρ$-meson electroproduction off proton target. The significant contribution coming from new type of quark-gluon interaction to the $ρ$-meson production cross section for both transversal and longitudinal polarization of virtual photon is found. Such non-perturbative contribution together with conventional perturbative two-gluon exchange allows us to describe the experimental data at low $Q^2$ for transversal polarization. However, in the longitudinal polarization case there is still some discrepancy with the data. The possible source of this deviation is discussed.
description: Latex, 10 pages, 4 figures, references added and typos fixed
Gas compression systematically delays the onset of viscous fingering
Creators: name: Morrow, Liam C.
name: Cuttle, Callum
name: MacMinn, Christopher W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using gas to drive liquid from a Hele-Shaw cell leads to classical viscous fingering. Strategies for suppressing fingering have received substantial attention. For steady injection of an incompressible gas, the intensity of fingering is controlled by the capillary number Ca. Here, we show that gas compression leads to an unsteady injection rate controlled primarily by a dimensionless compressibility number C. Increasing C systematically delays the onset of fingering at high Ca, highlighting compressibility as an overlooked but fundamental aspect of gas-driven fingering.
Experimental and Numerical Exploration of Electromagnetic-Induced Fracturing of Clay-Shale
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaolin
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil

description: The rapid electromagnetic (EM) heating of saturated clays and shales offers a potential means of selectively fracturing interbedded shales, and thereby enhancing oil production while maintaining the caprock integrity of shaley oil sand reservoirs during thermal production process. It is hypothesized that fracturing will occur in an extremely low permeability porous medium due to a large increase in pore fluid pressure by electromagnetic wave heating. As opposed to classical resistive heating, the EM heating of saturated clays/shales is mainly achieved by the interaction between radiating electromagnetic waves and polar water molecules. The above provides the backdrop for the thesis which aims at understanding the underlying fracture and thermal stress mechanisms of EM heating in a geomaterial. As such, comprehensive laboratory experiments are conducted in a specially designed EM heating apparatus. Challenges of the experimental endeavor are highlighted, given the susceptibility of measurement sensors with electromagnetic radiation. Four scenarios of tests are performed on kaolinite clay samples, a surrogate for clay-shale, whose basic properties are measured prior to EM heating. The use of kaolinite samples allows for the conduct of repeatable tests and provides a benchmarking for future tests on actual clay-shale core samples. Results of undrained tests at different confining conditions show that the clay will lose its structural integrity when the thermally induced excess pore pressure in the sample is higher than its tensile strength plus confining pressure. Alongside with the above lab experiments, a two phase (water-steam) fully coupled Multiphysics (EM wave propagation/thermal/fluid/mechanics) model is developed to study the major mechanisms of rapid EM heating. The finite element method is employed with a segregated numerical strategy to solve this highly nonlinear problem using a commercial software COMSOL Multiphysics. The simulation results indicate that pore water pressures develop mainly due to the high contrast between the fluid and solid phase coefficients of thermal expansion. Numerically predicted zones of fracture initiations and patterns are verified against experimental observations using a Mohr-Coulomb failure envelope combined with a tension cutoff.
พฤติกรรมการตกแต่งบัญชีและปัจจัยที่เกี่ยวข้อง
Creators: name: วรวิทย์ เพ็ชรรื่น
Publisher: name: คณะบริหารธุรกิจ เศรษฐศาสตร์และการสื่อสาร มหาวิทยาลัยนเรศวร
Year: 2561
Subjects: การตกแต่งบัญชี
ปัจจัยระดับองค์กร
ปัจจัยสถาบัน
ปัจจัยทางวัฒนธรรม
Earnings Management
Firm-Level Factor
Institutional Factor
Cultural Factor

description: วารสารบริหารธุรกิจ เศรษฐศาสตร์และการสื่อสาร, 13, 1, 29-40
The Role of Orexin in Social Behaviour
Creators: name: Dawson, Matthew
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hypocretin
subject: orexin
subject: social
subject: behaviour
subject: rodent
subject: mouse
subject: photometry
subject: optogenetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Psychology--Behavioral

description: Social behaviour is essential to the survival of most organisms and is produced by complex neural systems. The hypothalamus is known to be crucial for survival and reproduction. Recent research into the neural substrates of social behaviours has identified that hypothalamic regions play a fundamental role in the regulation of social behaviour by driving internal states of arousal, attention, and motivation. Hypocretin (Hcrt)/orexin-expressing neurons in the lateral hypothalamus (LH) are critical for the regulation of arousal and motivated behaviours. Hcrt neurons are widely studied with respect to their function in the regulation of these internal states however, there is limited knowledge for their role in social behaviour. We hypothesized that the LH Hcrt neurons have a fundamental role in social interaction and tested this hypothesis with a combination of fiber photometry and optogenetic experiments in a novel Hcrt-Cre-C57BL6/J mouse line. We found that the activity of the LH Hcrt neuron population increases following approach to social conspecifics. The increase in activity was significantly greater during approach to a novel conspecific rather than a familiar one, and in males compared to females. Using a familiar/novel object interaction test, we then determined that this differential increase was specific to social stimuli. Optogenetic inhibition of Hcrt neuron activity caused male mice to spend significantly less time socially interacting suggesting a disruption in normative social behaviour. This effect of optogenetic inhibition was absent in females. Finally, we validated that the effect of Hcrt neuron inhibition on social behaviour was not due to changes in anxiety-like or locomotor behaviours. In sum, these findings provide strong evidence for the role of hypocretin neurons in social behaviour, particularly in male mice.
Additional file 6 of Development and external validation of a breast cancer absolute risk prediction model in Chinese population
Creators: name: Han, Yuting
name: Lv, Jun
name: Yu, Canqing
name: Guo, Yu
name: Bian, Zheng
name: Hu, Yizhen
name: Yang, Ling
name: Chen, Yiping
name: Du, Huaidong
name: Zhao, Fangyuan
name: Wen, Wanqing
name: Shu, Xiao-Ou
name: Xiang, Yongbing
name: Gao, Yu-Tang
name: Zheng, Wei
name: Guo, Hong
name: Liang, Peng
name: Chen, Junshi
name: Chen, Zhengming
name: Huo, Dezheng
name: Li, Liming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. Show performance of the breast cancer prediction model across different predicted risk cutoffs in the Shanghai Women's Health Study.
WEB-ENABLED SOFTWARE PLATFORM FOR IDENTIFICATION OF MINIMUM-COST POWER TRANSMISSION LINES WITH REDUNDANCY CONSTRAINTS
Creators: name: Jha, Amit
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Disjoint two shortest paths
subject: Bezier surface Interpolation
subject: Power transmission line routing
subject: Web-application
subject: Education--Mathematics

description: Path redundancy is essential for safety and reliability in many real-world routing problems, such as the design of networks for power transmission or oil transportation. These problems typically involve finding the shortest path on a weighted graph. Instead, in the shortest path with constrained path redundancy, two disjoint shortest paths are desired, such that the combined weight of the two paths is minimized and a minimum physical path separation is maintained. Finding two disjoint shortest paths subject to constraints on a graph is generally an NP-hard problem. Conventionally, the task of planning for a redundant transmission line requires a large-scale graph and a mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation of the problem. However, due to the the large model dimension MIP is practically intractable. To overcome the intractability, a new 3D embedding scheme has been proposed by [18], which allows avoiding many common pitfalls of available heuristic approaches, while maintaining a modest computation time requirement. To enable this scheme, we developed a software package containing (1) an optimized implementation of a 3D embedding scheme and algorithms which uses it for the identification of disjoint shortest paths with separation constraint on a graph, and (2) a graphical user interface that allows user inputs as well as visualization of the solution on Google Maps. We deployed this software on cloud.
Prepackaging Lettuce at Shipping Point
Creators: name: Chapogas, Peter G.
name: Stokes, Donald R.
name: Chapogas, Peter G.
name: Stokes, Donald R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1964
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report: In December 1959, the U. S. Department of Agriculture packaging research staff began exploring the possibilities of wrapping lettuce in shrink films. The first cross-country test shipment was initiated in August 1960 and more tests followed. The results were so promising that several Salinas, Calif., shippers began sending small lots of prepackaged lettuce to customers throughout the country. Through the summer and fall of 1961, interest increased and many shippers began prepackaging lettuce or made preparations to wrap it. Very rapid development of equipment and techniques followed. Prepackaging lettuce at shipping point is still in an early stage of development. Shippers and research agencies continue their experiments, and changes in technique and equipment are being made almost daily. This report was written in response to the many requests to the Department for information.
INTEGRAL constraints on the Galactic hard X-ray background from the Milky Way anticenter
Creators: name: Krivonos, R.
name: Tsygankov, S.
name: Revnivtsev, M.
name: Sazonov, S.
name: Churazov, E.
name: Sunyaev, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of a study of the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) in hard X-rays with the IBIS telescope on board INTEGRAL in the region near the Galactic Anticenter (GA) at l=155 deg. We assumed a conservative 2 sigma upper limit on the flux from the GA in the 25-60 keV energy band of 1.25E-10 erg/s/cm^2 (12.8 mCrab) per IBIS field of view, or 6.6E-12 erg/s/cm^2 (0.7 mCrab) per degree longitude in the 135 deg. < l < 175 deg. region. This upper limit exceeds the expected GRXE intensity in the GA direction by an order of magnitude, given the near-infrared (NIR) surface brightness of the Milky Way in this region and the standard hard X-ray-to-NIR intensity ratio for the GRXE, assuming stellar origin. Based on the CGRO/EGRET surface brightness of the Galaxy above 100 MeV as a tracer of the cosmic-ray (CR) induced gamma-ray background, the expected GRXE flux in GA exceeds the measured 2 sigma upper limit by a factor of 4. Therefore, the non-detection of hard X-ray emission from the GA does not contradict the stellar nature of the GRXE, but is inconsistent with CR origin.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol.537, January 2012
Catalytic Upgrading of Wood Bio-Oil and Co-Processing with Petroleum Vacuum Gas Oil.
Creators: name: Santana Tijo, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Bio-Oil
subject: Upgrading
subject: Hydrotreating
subject: Co-processing
subject: Catalysis
subject: Advanced Bio-fuel
subject: Applied Sciences
subject: Energy
subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum

description: Wood waste is inexpensive and a promising source for bio-oil synthesis as an alternative to decrease carbon intensity (CI) in liquid fuels. However, due to the highly reactive oxygenated compounds present in raw bio-oil, it is corrosive, thermally unstable, and has a low heating value. Bio-oil needs to be upgraded before it could be used as a fuel or mixed with petroleum products, a well-known upgrading process in the petroleum industry is hydrotreating (HDT); however, its effectiveness in heteroatoms removal, hydrogen to carbon ratio improvement, and enhancing of oil properties demand high-pressure hydrogen and consumption implying higher operational costs. The research group of Catalysis for adsorption, fuels, and energy (CAFE), in partnership with Steeper Energy, has been implementing a new bio-oil upgrading scheme. Under that path after initial HDT, further upgrading is carried out through Aquaprocessing (AQP), a Catalytic Steam Cracking (CSC) process comprising cracking and olefins hydrogenation. A distillation stage was evaluated before CSC to process heavier cuts, aiming to increase conversion and light production, however, it was found that the presence of the light fraction in CSC favoured the vacuum residue (VR) conversion. Even though most of the oxygenated compounds are removed in HDT, after CSC there is still a 3% oxygen content remaining mainly as phenol species. To further hydro-deoxygenation and increase diesel fraction quality, an additional HDT of the light fraction was implemented achieving up to 93% in phenols reduction. As a complement to this upgrading path, the co-processing of bio-oil with petroleum derivatives is a promising opportunity for biofuel producers and refineries because it offers the possibility to upgrade the biocrude with no, or insignificant investment. HDT of raw Hydrofaction™ bio-crude was co-processed with a heavy vacuum gas oil (HVGO) in a weight percent ratio of 5/95, respectively. After 90 hours of continuous operation, the co-processing was stable and 100% of total acid number (TAN) reduction was achieved, sulfur was decreased by 55% and nitrogen by 40%. After the co-processing, CSC was carried out for further nitrogen and sulphur reduction and most importantly, to produce hydrogen as a byproduct that could be recycled in HDT.
Subsets of developmental transcription networks maintain cellular subtype identity in the mature nervous system
Creators: name: Eade, Kevin Thomas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The diversification of cellular subtype during development is directed by combinatorially acting transcription factors and signaling pathways that act to regulate subtype specific gene expression profiles in post-mitotic cells. These key transcription factors and signaling pathways operate in a transcriptional network, which act to establish cellular subtype identity over the course of a developing cellular lineage. Lineage progression towards ever increasing cellular diversity is often viewed as a ratchet mechanism of irreversible steps resulting in the specification and then terminal differentiation of cell subtype identities. From this viewpoint, terminally differentiated cells have long been considered as irreversibly locked into their identity. In a landmark article, Blau and Baltimore (Blau and Baltimore, 1991) postulated that a cell’s identity, or differentiated status, requires persistent active regulation, rather than lapsing into a passive ‘locked-in’ state. While little genetic evidence was available at the time, sufficient evidence has since accumulated to propose that the terminally differentiated state, or identity, of a cell subtype indeed requires active maintenance. Currently, however, we have only the most rudimentary understanding of the regulatory mechanisms that maintain neuronal identity. This thesis presents a systematic effort to characterize the role of the transcriptional networks that differentiate neuronal identity in the mature neurons of the adult nervous system. Using the Drosophila Tv cluster neurons I show the persistent requirement of 1) target derived signals and 2) networks of transcription factors for the maintenance of the cellular subtype specific expression profiles of terminal differentiation genes, genes that define these neuron’s function and identity. This work establishes one of the most comprehensive transcriptional models for maintenance of cell identity to date. It also provides novel mechanistic insights showing that cellular differentiation is a persistent process that requires active maintenance, rather than being passively ‘locked-in’ or unalterable. As such, the work of this thesis provides critical insight that provides a strong foundation for further efforts to determine how neuronal identity is maintained.
The Economic Impact of Infectious Bronchitis on the Canadian Poultry Industry
Creators: name: Phuntsho, Karma
Publisher: name: Veterinary Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Infectious bronchitis virus
subject: economic impact
subject: benefit-cost analysis
subject: Monte Carlo simulation
subject: Economics--Agricultural
subject: Veterinary Science

description: Infectious bronchitis is a common, highly contagious, acute, and economically important viral disease of chickens caused by infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), a gammacoronavirus. It affects the respiratory system, reproductive organs, and kidneys. Morbidity is 100%, and mortality can go well up to 30%, while egg production drops by up to 50% or more depending upon secondary infection by bacterial pathogens. Emerging IBV variants have led to outbreaks in vaccinated flocks due to a lack of cross-protective immunity, which represents a concern for producers. It is imperative that we assess the economic impact of IBV on the Canadian poultry industry to make important decisions on control and mitigation. I hypothesized that vaccination to prevent infectious bronchitis (IB) in poultry layers would have net positive economic benefits for Canadian poultry producers. A multiple scenario framework with Monte Carlo simulation and benefit-cost analysis was applied. The economic impact of IB on layer farms in Canada was examined by setting up models of Canadian layer poultry farms using data from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, scientific papers, the internet, and industry sources to perform simulations for various revenue classes across a range of IBV infection scenarios while considering possible control and prevention options. The results show that the impact of IB outbreaks on Canadian poultry industry is estimated to be around 207 billion CAD annually. The high benefit-cost ratios (5-9) from adopting IB vaccines suggest that vaccination as a preventive strategy would be highly cost effective. The study demonstrated the value of vaccination as a preventive or mitigation strategy against potential losses due to IBV. Understanding the extent of economic losses IB outbreaks cause to layer producers would inform the development of timely and cost-effective disease control and preventive measures in order to minimize the impact of IB on egg and chicken production.
Amplitude analysis of D0->K+K-pi+pi-
Creators: name: Artuso, M.
name: Blusk, S.
name: Mountain, R.
name: Skwarnicki, T.
name: Stone, S.
name: Zhang, L. M.
name: Gershon, T.
name: Bonvicini, G.
name: Cinabro, D.
name: Lincoln, A.
name: Smith, M. J.
name: Zhou, P.
name: Zhu, J.
name: Naik, P.
name: Rademacker, J.
name: Asner, D. M.
name: Edwards, K. W.
name: Randrianarivony, K.
name: Tatishvili, G.
name: Briere, R. A.
name: Vogel, H.
name: Onyisi, P. U. E.
name: Rosner, J. L.
name: Alexander, J. P.
name: Cassel, D. G.
name: Das, S.
name: Ehrlich, R.
name: Gibbons, L.
name: Gray, S. W.
name: Hartill, D. L.
name: Heltsley, B. K.
name: Kreinick, D. L.
name: Kuznetsov, V. E.
name: Patterson, J. R.
name: Peterson, D.
name: Riley, D.
name: Ryd, A.
name: Sadoff, A. J.
name: Shi, X.
name: Sun, W. M.
name: Yelton, J.
name: Rubin, P.
name: Lowrey, N.
name: Mehrabyan, S.
name: Selen, M.
name: Wiss, J.
name: Libby, J.
name: Kornicer, M.
name: Mitchell, R. E.
name: Besson, D.
name: Pedlar, T. K.
name: Cronin-Hennessy, D.
name: Hietala, J.
name: Dobbs, S.
name: Metreveli, Z.
name: Seth, K. K.
name: Tomaradze, A.
name: Xiao, T.
name: Martin, L.
name: Powell, A.
name: Spradlin, P.
name: Wilkinson, G.
name: Ge, J. Y.
name: Miller, D. H.
name: Shipsey, I. P. J.
name: Xin, B.
name: Adams, G. S.
name: Napolitano, J.
name: Ecklund, K. M.
name: Insler, J.
name: Muramatsu, H.
name: Park, C. S.
name: Pearson, L. J.
name: Thorndike, E. H.
name: Ricciardi, S.
name: Thomas, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first flavor-tagged amplitude analysis of the decay D0 to the self-conjugate final state K+K-pi+pi- is presented. Data from the CLEO II.V, CLEO III, and CLEO-c detectors are used, from which around 3000 signal decays are selected. The three most significant amplitudes, which contribute to the model that best fits the data, are phirho0, K1(1270)+-K-+, and non-resonant K+K-pi+pi-. Separate amplitude analyses of D0 and D0-bar candidates indicate no CP violation among the amplitudes at the level of 5% to 30% depending on the mode. In addition, the sensitivity to the CP-violating parameter gamma/phi3 of a sample of 2000 B+ -> D0-tilde(K+K-pi+pi-)K+ decays, where D0-tilde is a D0 or D0-bar, collected at LHCb or a future flavor facility, is estimated to be (11.3 +/- 0.3) degrees using the favored model.
description: 40 pages, 7 figures and submitted to Phys. Rev D
TCP J18224935-2408280: a symbiotic star identified during outburst
Creators: name: Sonith, L. S.
name: Kamath, U. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: TCP J18224935-2408280 was reported to be in outburst on 2021 May 19. Follow-up spectroscopic observations confirmed that the system was a symbiotic star. We present optical spectra obtained from the Himalayan Chandra Telescope during 2021-22. The early spectra were dominated by Balmer lines, He I lines and high ionization lines such as He II. In the later observations, Raman scattered O VI was also identified. Outburst in the system started as a disc instability, and later the signature of enhanced shell burning and expansion of photospheric radius of the white dwarf was identified. Hence we suggest this outburst is of combination nova type. The post-outburst temperature of the hot component remains above 1.5 x 10$^5$ K indicating a stable shell burning in the system for a prolonged time after the outburst. Based on our analysis of archival multiband photometric data, we find that the system contains a cool giant of M1-2 III spectral type with a temperature of $\sim$ 3600K and a radius of $\sim$ 69 R$_\odot$. The pre- and post-outburst light curve shows a periodicity of 631.25 $\pm$ 2.93 d; we consider this as the orbital period.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, 3 table; published in MNRAS
In Defense of Non-Comparative Harm
Creators: name: Taylor-Fergusson, Rachel
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Harm
subject: non-comparative harm
subject: Harman
subject: Non-Identity Problem
subject: intrinsic harm
subject: instrumental harm
subject: well-being
subject: disability
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The typical account of harm, the Counterfactual Comparative Account of Harm, provides an assessment of harm as causing an individual to be “worse off” than they otherwise would have been. This account fails to correctly identify harm in a variety of cases. Non-Identity Problem cases are procreation cases where an individual is born with a disadvantage or into a poor environment, but this account cannot identify procreative harm, as the individual otherwise would not exist. Preemption Problem cases of overdetermined harm, but this account cannot identify the harm, as a similar harm would otherwise occur. Omission Problem cases outline a failure to benefit, which identifies harm where it should not, as the individual is worse off without the benefit. The Counterfactual Comparative Account of Harm fails to identify or over identifies harm. An alternative account of harm, the Non-Comparative Account, avoids these problems. I advance Elizabeth Harman's account, which assesses harm on the grounds that an individual is caused to be in a "bad state". Harman's list of bad states is: "pain, mental or physical discomfort, disease, deformity, disability, or death" (Harman, 2009, p. 139). Harman’s account can overcome the problems facing the Counterfactual Comparative Account. However, Harman’s account requires modification to avoid perpetuating an ableist ideology based on an outdated Medical Model of Disability. I suggest, instead, adopting a Social Model of Disability, then modifying Harman’s list to include only states that are intrinsically bad (bad by its very nature) and exclude those that are instrumentally bad (bad because of what it brings about). As such, I exclude disease, deformity, and disability from Harman’s list.
Gravitational wave observations of galactic intermediate-mass black hole binaries with DECIGO Path Finder
Creators: name: Yagi, Kent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: DECIGO Path Finder (DPF) is a space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detector with sensitivity in the frequency band 0.1--100Hz. As a first step mission to DECIGO, it is aiming for launching in 2016--2017. Although its main objective is to demonstrate technology for GW observation in space, DPF still has a chance of detecting GW signals and performing astrophysical observations. With an observable range up to 50 kpc, its main targets are GW signals from galactic intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) binaries. By using inspiral-merger-ringdown phenomenological waveforms, we perform both pattern-averaged analysis and Monte Carlo simulations including the effect of detector motion to find that the masses and (effective) spins of the IMBHs could be determined with errors of a few percent, should the signals be detected. Since GW signals from IMBH binaries with masses above $10^4 M_\odot$ cannot be detected by ground-based detectors, these objects can be unique sources for DPF. If the inspiral signal of a $10^3M_\odot$ IMBH binary is detected with DPF, it can give alert to the ringdown signal for the ground-based detectors $10^2$--$10^3$s before coalescence. We also estimate the possible bound on the graviton Compton wavelength from a possible IMBH binary in $ω$ Centauri. We obtain a slightly weaker constraint than the solar system experiment and an about 2 orders of magnitude stronger constraint than the one from binary pulsar tests. Unfortunately, the detection rate of IMBH binaries is rather small.
description: 32 pages, 13 figures, accepted to CQG, references added
The global effect for antisaccades
Creators: name: Viswanathan, Jayalakshmi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: In the global effect, prosaccades are deviated to a position intermediate between two targets or between a distractor and a target, which may reflect spatial averaging in the collicular map. Antisaccades differ from prosaccades in that they dissociate the locations of the stimulus and goal, and generate weaker collicular activity. We used these antisaccade properties to determine whether the global effect was generated in stimulus or goal computations, and if the global effect would be larger for antisaccades, as predicted by an origin of the effect in collicular averaging. In the first two experiments, human subjects performed antisaccades while distractors were placed in the vicinity of either the stimulus or the saccadic goal. Global effects occurred only for goal-related and not for stimulus-related distractors, indicating that this effect emerges from interactions with motor representations. In the last experiment, subjects performed prosaccades and antisaccades with and without goal-related distractors. When the results were adjusted for differences in response latency, the global effects for rapid responses were three to four times larger for antisaccades than for prosaccades. These results were consistent with predictions of spatial averaging in a collicular model. We conclude that the antisaccade global effect shows properties compatible with spatial averaging in collicular maps, and if so, originate in layers with neural activity related to goal rather than stimulus representations.
The Ecosystem of Commercial Academic Fraud
Creators: name: Eaton, Sarah Elaine
name: Carmichael, Jamie
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2022
Subjects: academic misconduct
academic integrity
contract cheating
academic dishonesty
fake degree
fraud
impersonation
student proxy
paper mills
scholarly publishing

description: This graphic depicts the intersection and overlap between various types of commercial academic fraud and cheating. There are four overlapping categories including: (1) degree mills (i.e., fake and fraudulent diplomas, transcripts, reference letters, and other academic and professional documents; (2) contract cheating (i.e., outsourced student academic work such as term paper mills, assignment completion services, thesis writing services, and student proxy services; (3) admissions fraud (i.e., impersonation and fraud services for standardized admissions testing, language proficiency testing, and unethical educational agents); and (4) paper mills (i.e., manufactured scholarly and scientific publications and authorship for sale.) At the heart of all of this is intentional academic fraud.
Additional file 7 of Development and external validation of a breast cancer absolute risk prediction model in Chinese population
Creators: name: Han, Yuting
name: Lv, Jun
name: Yu, Canqing
name: Guo, Yu
name: Bian, Zheng
name: Hu, Yizhen
name: Yang, Ling
name: Chen, Yiping
name: Du, Huaidong
name: Zhao, Fangyuan
name: Wen, Wanqing
name: Shu, Xiao-Ou
name: Xiang, Yongbing
name: Gao, Yu-Tang
name: Zheng, Wei
name: Guo, Hong
name: Liang, Peng
name: Chen, Junshi
name: Chen, Zhengming
name: Huo, Dezheng
name: Li, Liming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7. Show validation of the Asian America Breast Cancer Study model for predicting individual breast cancer risk in China Kadoorie Biobank and Shanghai Women's Health Study.
Controlling Quantum Chaos: Optimal Coherent Targeting
Creators: name: Tomsovic, Steven
name: Urbina, Juan Diego
name: Richter, Klaus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: quantum chaos, control, semiclassical mechanics
subject: 530 Physik

description: One of the principal goals of controlling classical chaotic dynamical systems is known as targeting, which is the very weakly perturbative process of using the system's extreme sensitivity to initial conditions in order to arrive at a predetermined target state. It is shown that a generalization to chaotic quantum systems is possible in the semiclassical regime, but requires tailored perturbations whose effects must undo the dynamical spreading of the evolving quantum state. The procedure described here is applied to initially minimum uncertainty wave packets in the quantum kicked rotor, a preeminent quantum chaotic paradigm, to illustrate the method, and investigate its accuracy. The method's error can be made to vanish as ℏ→0.
Fine-tuning and naturalness issues in the two-zero neutrino mass textures
Creators: name: Blankenburg, G.
name: Meloni, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyze the compatibility of two-zero neutrino Majorana textures with the recent experimental data. Differently from previous works, we use the experimental data to fix the values of the non-vanishing mass matrix entries and study in detail the correlations and degree of fine-tuning among them, which is also a measure of how naturally a given texture is able to describe all neutrino data. This information is then used to expand the textures in powers of the Cabibbo angle; extracting random O(1) coefficients, we show that only in few cases such textures reproduce the mixing parameters in their 3 sigma ranges.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures. Version to appear in NPB
Surge of power transmission in flat and nearly flat band lattices
Creators: name: Susanto, H.
name: Lazarides, N.
name: Kourakis, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flat band systems can yield interesting phenomena, such as dispersion suppression of waves with frequency at the band. While linear transport vanishes, the corresponding nonlinear case is still an open question. Here, we study power transmission along nonlinear sawtooth lattices due to waves with the flat band frequency injected at one end. While there is no power transfer for small intensity, there is a threshold amplitude above which a surge of power transmission occurs, i.e., supratransmission, for defocusing nonlinearity. This is due to a nonlinear evanescent wave with the flat band frequency that becomes unstable. We show that dispersion suppression and supratransmission also exist even when the band is nearly flat.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Untersuchungen zur atembedingten mechanischen Beanspruchung des Lungengewebes mittels elektrischer Impedanztomografie
Creators: name: Böhm, Stephan
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, eine neuartige Methode zur Bestimmung der relativen regionalen mechanischen Beanspruchung des Lungengewebes (Strain) auf Basis der elektrischen Impedanztomografie (EIT) zu entwickeln und sowohl am experimentellen Modell des akuten Lungenschadens als auch in COVID-19-Patienten zu testen. Die höchsten Strain-Werte wurden in den Tieren bei PEEP 0 cmH2O in den ventralen Lungenabschnitten gefunden und nahmen mit steigendem PEEP ab. Eine Messung des relativen Strains war auch bei lungengesunden und COVID-19-Patienten möglich und spiegelte den klinischen Zustand wider.
Researcher blog; Sources of inspiration for creative practices in co-production - Lab4Living, Design for Health & Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University
Creators: name: Langley, Joe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 330306
subject: Design practice and methods

description: In this blog, researcher Joe Langley highlights the work of some key thinkers that have influenced his work exploring the role of creative practices in production.Joe recently led in developing a journal special issue, for Evidence & Policy which was guest edited by a multidisciplinary editorial group.In a previous post, he outlined the development of the Evidence & Policy special issue and its theme of Creativity in Co-production, with key insights into his experiences of pulling it together during COVID. In this blog post Joe describes some of the sources of inspiration which underpinned its early thinking.
Some Benefits, Drawbacks and Perils of Negotiated Settlement as a Price Regulatory Method of Pipeline Services
Creators: name: Jimenez-Montiel, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Law
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Negotiated settlement
subject: Market failure
subject: Cross-subsidization
subject: Stranded assets
subject: Market power
subject: Pipelines
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Carriers and shippers have long preferred negotiation over litigation to solve issues of prices for natural gas pipeline services. However, parties frequently end up in litigation. This paper explains why this problem happens under Canadian law. When parties negotiate, they create benefits by solving short-term issues of financial viability of pipeline systems. Parties sometimes unanimously agree upon their own rules and incentives on price and conditions of service under minimal regulatory intervention. In addition, parties find a balance of interests and certainty by agreeing on the carrier’s total revenue requirement and the method to set the prices shippers will pay. Moreover, parties prevent abuse of monopoly and market power which used to be the main reasons for regulatory intervention based on adjudication. Parties have achieved these benefits without discussions based on regulatory principles. However, parties’ negotiation has some drawbacks and perils even in the presence of pipeline competition. Sometimes parties alone have not prevented cross-subsidization which can affect rivalry between shippers and rivalry between carriers. Even more, the growing degree of pipeline competition and other business risks can leave some transmission assets stranded. Therefore, shareholders cannot recover the profits permitted and the capital invested, and the long-term viability of a pipeline system is threatened. Here the drawback is that shippers alone cannot prevent a carrier from attempting to transfer that long-term risk to shippers. Finally, a carrier can take actions contrary to a settlement after the Regulator approves it, leading parties to new conflicts. The Regulator has adapted the regulatory processes to manage the drawbacks and perils by adjudicating on the issues posed by parties who dissent from the settlement agreed or when negotiation do not work. Despite parties’ preference for negotiation, the Regulator needs to adjudicate based on cost of service and the regulatory principles. Thus, adjudication remains the default process as the Regulator has solved the disputes based on the carrier’s burden of proof to minimize the asymmetry of information between the carrier and shippers and between the carrier and the Regulator regarding the allocation of costs and business risks. That asymmetry explains the drawbacks and perils.
Optimierung von stickstoffreduzierten Fütterungsstrategien in der Broilermast
Creators: name: Fenske, Kilian
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 630 Agriculture

description: Die Deutsche Landwirtschaft wird weiter daran arbeiten müssen, die N-Emissionen zu reduzieren (BMUV 2021, DüVO 2020 und StoffBilV 2017). In der Hähnchenmast wurde anhand von 4 verschiedenen Praxisversuchen aufgezeigt, dass eine N-Reduktion im Futter (Rohproteinabsenkung) die N-Ausscheidungen deutlich reduziert. Ein optimiertes Aminosäurenmuster sorgt, neben gleichbleibenden Wachstumsleistungen, zu weiteren positiven Nebeneffekten (trockenere Einstreu, gesündere Fußballen). Damit konnten erstmal die Ergebnisse von Stationsprüfungen mit geringer Tierzahl auf einen Praxisbetrieb übertragen werden.
Morphological and Activity-Dependent Effects of Astrocyte Activation in the Orbitofrontal Cortex
Creators: name: Sobey, Marissa
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience

description: Astrocytes, the most abundant glial cell in the central nervous system (CNS), have significant roles in supplying energetic substrates to neurons, regulating blood brain barrier (BBB) permeability, homeostasis of ions and pH to neurons in the tripartite synapse. Much remains unknown about astrocytes due to the limitations of current tools to visualize and manipulate astrocyte activity. To understand astrocyte physiology and pathophysiology, we need methods to visualize and specifically assess the activity of astrocytes. A recent astrocyte promoter, gfaABC1D, may provide better astrocyte specificity and transduction efficiency in the cortex. S100B is a calcium-binding glycoprotein only expressed in the soma of astrocytes also can be used as a marker for astrocytes. To activate cortical astrocytes, we targeted excitatory Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (hM3Dq DREADDs) to astrocytes of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a region involved in decision making and injected the DREADD-specific, brain penetrant ligand, DCZ. I hypothesize that using a combination approach of S100B, and gfaABC1D-tagged DREADD virus will successfully label and activate astrocytes in the lateral OFC (LOFC), whilst not indirectly influencing neuronal activity (measured by cFos). This thesis used a novel IMARIS 3D visualization method to visualize astrocytes and the colocalization of the DREADD-reporter in astrocytes. The result suggests that there are more astrocytes in the LOFC compared to the medial (MOFC), independent of DCZ administration. There is intraregional heterogeneity between the LOFC and the MOFC. The gfaABC1D-DREADD virus successfully transfected astrocytes in LOFC. There was no increase in cFos intensity in NeuN cells in the LOFC or the MOFC, suggesting that activation of Gq-DREADDs in astrocytes was not sufficient to affect neuronal activation. Future research should address the calcium activity response to DCZ on excitatory DREADDS in astrocytes in-vitro. This thesis offers an acute method to assess astrocytes in the cortex to further be used in a chronic model to induce inflammation, to better understand cortical reward system inflammation seen in addiction and obesity.
Swift observations of two supergiant fast X-ray transient prototypes in outburst
Creators: name: Farinelli, R.
name: Romano, P.
name: Mangano, V.
name: Ceccobello, C.
name: Ducci, L.
name: Vercellone, S.
name: Esposito, P.
name: Kennea, J. A.
name: Burrows, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the results from observations of the most recent outbursts of XTE J1739-302 and IGR J17544-2619, which are considered to be the prototypes of the supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT) class. They triggered the Swift/BAT on 2011 February 22 and March 24, respectively, and each time a prompt Swift slew allowed us to obtain the rich broad-band data we present. The XRT light curves show the descending portion of very bright flares that reached luminosities of ~2x10^{36} and ~5x10^{36} erg/s, respectively. The broad-band spectra, when fit with the usual phenomenological models adopted for accreting neutron stars, yield values of both high energy cut-off and e-folding energy consistent with those obtained from previously reported outbursts from these sources. In the context of more physical models, the spectra of both sources can be well fitted either with a two-blackbody model, or with a single unsaturated Comptonization model. In the latter case, the model can be either a classical static Comptonization model, such as COMPTT, or the recently developed COMPMAG model, which includes thermal and bulk Comptonization for cylindrical accretion onto a magnetized neutron star. We discuss the possible accretion scenarios derived by the different models, and we also emphasize the fact that the electron density derived from the Comptonization models, in the regions where the X-ray spectrum presumably forms, is lower than that estimated using the continuity equation at the magnetospheric radius and the source X-ray luminosity, and we give some possible explanations.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS