cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Establishing New Patterns for Textile Design: Exploring Opportunities Offered by Digital Technologies for the Development, Fabrication and Presentation of Repeat Pattern
Creators: name: McLeod, Natalie
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
title: "Nothing was further from his intention than to offend": an analysis of visual satire, identity and stereotypes in the Glasgow/Northern Looking Glass caricature periodical, 1825–1826
Creators: name: Schwertner, Danielle
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: Created by Glasgow printer John Watson and English artist William Heath, the Glasgow/Northern Looking Glass (1825–1826) is not only one of the pioneering periodicals that paved the route from caricature to comic art (with researchers even going so far as to label it ‘the world’s first modern comic’), but a product that uniquely contributed to larger social conversations found across media formats during the early nineteenth century. Such conversations include those surrounding gender ideologies, racial stereotypes, and class-based struggles — issues that had become especially prominent across Britain during the 1820s. Though it provides reflections of and on both the evolving print world and the ever-changing social milieus of 1820s Britain, the GLG has not been the focus of an in-depth study until now. The goal of this thesis is to explore how in-depth, contextual analyses of depictions of gender and other identities found in the GLG’s satiric images can encourage new and more inclusive analyses of caricature’s place in print history and nineteenth-century European history. In order to understand better how caricature art arrived at the point we see it in 1825, this thesis firstly explores how historical events and social and cultural change impacted the art form in the sixty years leading up to the publication of the first issue of the GLG. With the contextual groundwork in place, several case studies are then employed to explore the overarching identities and stereotypes of women and men as they are depicted in images from the periodical. These case studies include images that best reflect the conversations around gender, class and race that were prominent at this time, and which show how the GLG, and other products like it, can be invaluable for gaining a more nuanced and rounded perspective on caricature art, the nineteenth-century British printing scene and late Georgian culture.
Landau-like states in neutral particles
Creators: name: Banerjee, Saikat
name: Ågren, Hans
name: Balatsky, Alexander V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the emergence of a new type of dispersion relation for neutral atoms with an interesting similarity with the spectrum of 2-dimensional electrons in an applied perpendicular constant magnetic field. These neutral atoms can be confined in toroidal optical traps and give quasi Landau spectra. In strong contrast to the equi-distant infinitely degenerate Landau levels for charged particles, the spectral gap for such 2-dimensional neutral particles increases in particular electric field configurations. The idea in the paper is motivated by the development in cold atom experiments and builds on the seminal paper of Aharonov and Casher.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
The Filtration System of Localization and Glocalization for Brand Voice and Brand Communication
Creators: name: Surikova, Julija
name: Siroda, Sati
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 350604
subject: Marketing communications

description: For over half a century, there has been ongoing debate among communication professionals and theorists about the need for localization or globalization in brand communication. Both sides have argued about the most effective strategy for global brands in the global market, with no clear consensus on the optimal approach. This paper aims to examine the impact of localization and glocalization on brand voice. A qualitative study design was used, based on a content analysis of case studies involving globalization, localization, and glocalization. The study is exploratory in nature and uses inductive reasoning. Through case study analysis, it became apparent that localized and glocalized brand communication and brand voice are influenced by various factors such as cultural background, religion, national beliefs, political environment, regional languages, media policies, political restraints, and socioeconomic conditions. These factors act as "filters" that may edit, clarify, censor, change, or leave brand communication unchanged. The author introduces the concept of a "filtration system" for localization and glocalization, which can be applied by multinational companies entering new markets to better fit the culture, habits, and values of the local area.
Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies: The Environment
Creators: name: Filho, M. E.
name: Almeida, J. Sánchez
name: Muñoz-Tuñón, C.
name: Nuza, S. E.
name: Kitaura, F.
name: Heß, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analyzed bibliographical observational data and theoretical predictions, in order to probe the environment in which extremely metal-poor dwarf galaxies (XMPs) reside. We have assessed the HI component and its relation to the optical galaxy, the cosmic web type (voids, sheets, filaments and knots), the overdensity parameter and analyzed the nearest galaxy neighbours. The aim is to understand the role of interactions and cosmological accretion flows in the XMP observational properties, particularly the triggering and feeding of the star formation. We find that XMPs behave similarly to Blue Compact Dwarfs; they preferably populate low-density environments in the local Universe: ~60% occupy underdense regions, and ~75% reside in voids and sheets. This is more extreme than the distribution of irregular galaxies, and in contrast to those regions preferred by elliptical galaxies (knots and filaments). We further find results consistent with previous observations; while the environment does determine the fraction of a certain galaxy type, it does not determine the overall observational properties. With the exception of five documented cases (four sources with companions and one recent merger), XMPs do not generally show signatures of major mergers and interactions; we find only one XMP with a companion galaxy within a distance of 100 kpc, and the HI gas in XMPs is typically well-behaved, demonstrating asymmetries mostly in the outskirts. We conclude that metal-poor accretion flows may be driving the XMP evolution. Such cosmological accretion could explain all the major XMP observational properties: isolation, lack of interaction/merger signatures, asymmetric optical morphology, large amounts of unsettled, metal-poor HI gas, metallicity inhomogeneities, and large specific star formation.
Non-Markovianity and memory effects in quantum open systems
Creators: name: Hou, S. C.
name: Liang, S. L.
name: Yi, X. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although a number of measures for quantum non-Markovianity have been proposed recently, it is still an open question whether these measures directly characterize the memory effect of the environment, i.e., the dependence of a quantum state on its past in a time evolution. In this paper, we present a criterion and propose a measure for non-Markovianity with clear physical interpretations of the memory effect. The non-Markovianity is defined by the inequality $T(t_2,t_0)\neq T(t_2,t_1)T(t_1,t_0)$ in terms of memoryless dynamical map $T$ introduced in this paper. This definition is conceptually distinct from that based on divisibility used by Rivas et al (Phys. Rev. Lett 105, 050403 (2010)), whose violation is manifested by non-complete positivity of the dynamical map. We demonstrate via a typical quantum process that without Markovian approximation, nonzero memory effects (non-Markovianity) always exist even if the non-Markovianity is zero by the other non-Marovianity measures.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Automorphic inflation
Creators: name: Schimmrigk, Rolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A framework of inflation is formulated based on symmetry groups and their associated automorphic functions. In this setting the inflaton multiplet takes values in a curved target space constructed from a continuous group $G$ and a discrete subgroup $Γ$. The dynamics of inflationary models is essentially determined by the choice of the pair $(G,Γ)$ and a function $Φ$ on the group $G$ relative to $Γ$. Automorphic inflation provides a natural structure in which the shift symmetry of large field inflation arises as one of generators of $Γ$. The model of $j-$inflation is discussed as an example of modular inflation associated to the special linear group.
description: 14 pages; More phenomenological and simplified published version
EDUCAÇÃO FINANCEIRA: UM ESTUDO A PARTIR DOS GRADUANDOS DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO E CONTABILIDADE DA UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DA BAHIA (UNEB) - DCH - CAMPUS-Ⅰ SALVADOR
Creators: name: Pastor Filho, Antônio César Mota
name: Pinheiro, Carlos Alberto Orge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Educação financeira
Endividamento
Finanças pessoais
Inadimplência
Planejamento financeiro

description: No presente trabalho será posto em pratica a discussão referente ao tema, educação financeira: um estudo a partir dos graduandos de administração e contabilidade da Universidade do estado da Bahia (UNEB) – DCH – campus-Ⅰ Salvador. Observando que conhecimentos sobre finanças pessoais ainda é algo superficial, tendo em vista que com frequências por meio dos noticiários são relatados índice de endividamento em que se encontram a população brasileira. E este fato fica ainda mais evidente ao notar as disciplinas ofertadas dos cursos de administração e contabilidade da Universidade do Estado da Bahia – UNEB – campus-I Salvador (DCH), onde ambos os cursos não possuem nenhuma disciplina voltada para o ensino da educação financeira pessoal. No que se diz respeito os mesmos deveriam ter disciplinas voltadas para melhor instruir os estudantes no quesito educação pessoal financeira, contribuindo para uma reflexão crítica sobre essa questão ajudando os estudantes a melhor lidar com as finanças. Diante dessa realidade surgiram algumas inquietações como por exemplo: Como a ausência de disciplinas voltadas a educação financeira pessoal, pode interferir nas finanças dos universitários?  como a falta de disciplinas voltadas a educação financeira pessoal, pode a vir a influenciar na carreira de futuros administradores e contadores? Buscando responder tais questionamentos e inquietações sobre a educação das finanças pessoais de estudantes de administração e contábeis, de modo a compreender tais inquietações. Foi elaborado um objetivo geral o qual busca demonstrar como a ausência de disciplinas voltadas para a educação financeira pessoal entre os componentes curriculares dos cursos de administração e contábeis comprometem na formação dos discentes. Nesse sentido, foi possível trazer a colaboração do diálogo com teóricos que defendem a inserção de disciplinas de educação financeira para o cotidiano da sala de aula.  A falta de educação financeira não só promove perdas financeiras, mas também priva sobre como a lidar com tal perda, pois se conhecendo sobre o sistema financeiro em um momento difícil o indivíduo saberá recorrê-lo e fará o uso consciente de suas finanças, algo que poucos utilizam e consequentemente compromete suas finanças de modo que chegam a ficar endividadas ou até mesmo inadimplentes por um longo período. Nesta perspectiva este estudo foi desenvolvido para chamar a atenção do quanto disciplinas voltadas a educação financeira pessoal devem esta inseridas na grade curricular dos cursos de administração e contabilidade.
Data-centric Service-Based Architecture for Edge-Native 6G Network
Creators: name: Baldoni, Gabriele
name: Quevedo, Jose
name: Guimaraes, Carlos
name: De la Oliva, Antonio
name: Corsaro, Angelo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: 6G, SBA, Data-Centric, Dataflow, Distributed Systems

description: Starting with 5G, mobile networks moved away from the point-to-point model used by previous generations towards a Service-Based Architecture (SBA) focused on a Cloud-native design. While 5G considers the SBA mainly as a central location with a single administrative domain, 6G is expected to become more of a fully distributed system. This raises the need for flexible service routing capabilities that allow the utilization of the distributed resources available over multiple infrastructures. This paper embraces this vision and explores the utilization of data-centric and dataflow mechanisms for a seamless realization and interaction of composable services in a fully distributed Edgenative 6G architecture. The feasibility and suitability of this vision are showcased through a proof-of-concept prototype, validated over selected 5G workflows using different technologies, with results demonstrating the advantages of pursuing data-centric and dataflow approaches.
Competing Orders in a Dipolar Bose-Fermi Mixture on a Square Optical Lattice: Mean-Field Perspective
Creators: name: Scaramazza, Jasen A.
name: Kain, Ben
name: Ling, Hong Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a mixture of a two-component Fermi gas and a single-component dipolar Bose gas in a square optical lattice and reduce it into an effective Fermi system where the Fermi-Fermi interaction includes the attractive interaction induced by the phonons of a uniform dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate. Focusing on this effective Fermi system in the parameter regime that preserves the symmetry of $D_4$, the point group of a square, we explore, within the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mean-field theory, the phase competition among density wave orderings and superfluid pairings. We construct the matrix representation of the linearized gap equation in the irreducible representations of $D_4$. We show that in the weak coupling regime, each matrix element, which is a four-dimensional (4D) integral in momentum space, can be put in a separable form involving a 1D integral, which is only a function of temperature and the chemical potential, and a pairing-specific "effective" interaction, which is an analytical function of the parameters that characterize the Fermi-Fermi interactions in our system. We analyze the critical temperatures of various competing orders as functions of different system parameters in both the absence and presence of the dipolar interaction. We find that close to half filling, the d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}-wave pairing with a critical temperature in the order of a fraction of Fermi energy (at half filling) may dominate all other phases, and at a higher filling factor, the p-wave pairing with a critical temperature in the order of a hundredth of Fermi energy may emerge as a winner. We find that tuning a dipolar interaction can dramatically enhance the pairings with $d_{xy}$- and g-wave symmetries but not enough for them to dominate other competing phases.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures
An internal promoter underlies the difference in disease severity between N- and C-terminal truncation mutations of Titin in zebrafish
Creators: name: Hager, Ronald L
name: Kane, John P
name: Coughlin, Shaun R
name: Jinek, Martin
name: Pullinger, Clive R
name: Deo, Rahul C
name: Hart, Daniel O
name: Kwok, Pui-Yan
name: Titus, Erron W
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Truncating mutations in the giant sarcomeric protein Titin result in dilated cardiomyopathy and skeletal myopathy. The most severely affected dilated cardiomyopathy patients harbor Titin truncations in the C-terminal two-thirds of the protein, suggesting that mutation position might influence disease mechanism. Using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, we generated six zebrafish lines with Titin truncations in the N-terminal and C-terminal regions. Although all exons were constitutive, C-terminal mutations caused severe myopathy whereas N-terminal mutations demonstrated mild phenotypes. Surprisingly, neither mutation type acted as a dominant negative. Instead, we found a conserved internal promoter at the precise position where divergence in disease severity occurs, with the resulting protein product partially rescuing N-terminal truncations. In addition to its clinical implications, our work may shed light on a long-standing mystery regarding the architecture of the sarcomere.
Unionicola (Pentatax) necessaria Koenike 1906
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Unionicola
Unionicola necessaria

description: Unionicola (Pentatax) necessaria (Koenike, 1906)
Records from the study area: West Bengal—Lundblad (1969).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
title: Searches for gluino mediated sbottom production with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: Sellers, Graham
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: A search for the supersymmetric process of gluino mediated sbottom produc- tion is presented. This search was carried out using 2.05 fb−1 of 7 TeV proton- proton collisions in the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The data used were collected during the 2011 ATLAS run. In the search, six distinct signal regions are defined in order to identify can- didate events for the signal process. These regions are distinguished by requiring events to possess an effective mass of at least 500 GeV, 700 GeV or 900 GeV and by requiring at least 1 b-jet or at least 2 b-jets in the final state. The data ob- served in these signal regions are compared to Monte Carlo simulation of known Standard Model processes, which form the background to this search. No excess in the data above the Standard Model background is seen in any of the signal regions and therefore limits are set on the exclusion of this supersym- metric process in the gluino-sbottom mass plane. The limits set are derived from two distinctly different statistical foundations, one using a frequentist approach and the other using a Bayesian approach. The two methods are compared in the final limits they provide and are found to be in good agreement with one another.
Appropriation, Ephemera and the Transformation of Waste
Creators: name: Taylor, Matthew
name: Whitson-Smith, Jade
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
Transition from semiconducting to metallic-like conducting and weak antilocalization effect in single crystals of LuPtSb
Creators: name: Hou, Zhipeng
name: Wang, Yue
name: Xu, Guizhou
name: Zhang, Xiaoming
name: Liu, Enke
name: Wang, Wenquan
name: Liu, Zhongyuan
name: Xi, Xuekui
name: Wang, Wenhong
name: Wu, Guangheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High quality half-Heusler single crystals of LuPtSb have been synthesized by a Pb flux method. The temperature dependent resistivity and Hall effects indicate that the LuPtSb crystal is a p-type gapless semiconductor showing a transition from semiconducting to metallic conducting at 150 K. Moreover, a weakly temperature-dependent positive magnetoresistance (MR) as large as 109 % and high carrier mobility up to 2950 cm2/Vs are experimentally observed at temperatures below 150 K. The low-field MR data shows evidence for weak antilocalization (WAL) effect at temperatures even up to 150 K. Analysis of the temperature and angle dependent magnetoconductance manifests that the WAL effect originates from the bulk contribution owing to the strong spin-orbital coupling.
description: 13 pages, 4 figs, submitted
title: Developments in dynamic field gradient focusing: microfluidics and integration
Creators: name: Wray, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: Advances in modern science require the development of more robust and improved systems for electroseparations in chromatography. In response, the progress of a new analytical platform is discussed. DFGF (Dynamic Field Gradient Focusing) is a separation technique, first described in 1998, which exploits the differences in electrophoretic mobility and hydrodynamic area of analytes to result in separation. This is achieved by taking a channel and applying a hydrodynamic flow in one direction and a counteracting electric field gradient acting in the opposite direction, resulting in analytes reaching a focal point according to their electrophoretic mobility. Work through this project has seen innovations to improve existing DFGF devices, including the design and manufacture of a novel packing material, while developing the latest DFGF system. This incorporates a microfluidic separation channel, eliminating the need for packing material or monolith. The new microfluidic device also features whole-on-column UV detection. Improvements through the developments of this device are discussed, most notably the utilisation of a new rapid prototyping technique. Examples of applications undertaken with the new device are demonstrated including novel samples and integration with mass spectrometry and 2D-HPLC.
Microbial Communities in Peruvian Acid Mine Drainages: Low-Abundance Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria With High Metabolic Activity
Creators: name: Valdez-Nuñez, Luis Felipe
name: Ayala-Muñoz, Diana
name: Sánchez-España, Javier
name: Sánchez-Andrea, Irene
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: We investigated the microbial community composition in three different mine tunnels from Hualgayoc (Cajamarca, Peru) and the metabolic activity of acidophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria (aSRB) enriched from acidic sediments of the mining tunnels. Microbial community composition in environmental samples was analyzed by 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. Metallibacterium and Acidiphilium were found as the most abundant bacteria in PM1 and PM2 sites, respectively, while Cyanobacteria was abundant in PM3 site. Isosphaera and Pseudomonas thrived in the acidic water of PM2 site as well. Sulfate reduction at low pH was then evaluated in microcosm experiments showing activity even at pH 3.4. Hydrogen was the most favorable electron donor in terms of sulfate reducing rates (0.5 mM day−1 at pH 5.1) and sulfide production (4.9 mM at the end of the experiment). Sequences affiliated to Desulfosporosinus and Desulfovibrio were abundant in the hydrogen microcosms (60.3 and 17.8%, respectively). These sequences were not detected in sediments, but their occurrence in the microcosms suggests their low abundance in the studied AMD systems. Our results expand the phyla detected in AMD environments and contribute to the understanding of aSRB for the possibility of applying these microorganisms in bioremediation.
title: One against Seven
title: Variations on the Misogynistic Nature of 'The Seven Sages' in Different Arabic Manuscript Copies (17th - 18th Centuries)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Redwan, Rima
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Seven Viziers
subject: Misogyny
subject: Manuscripts
subject: Qur'ān
subject: Variance
subject: 800 Literatur::890 Andere Literaturen::892 Afroasiatische Literaturen, semitische Literaturen

description: Variants of ‘The Malice of Women and the Malice of Men’, known under the title of ‘The Seven Sages’, have circulated since the 9th century throughout the world and have been susceptible to various kinds of influence, be they religious, linguistic, or thematic. Moreover, the text functioned as a ‘mirror for princes’ and was entertaining for many readers, who were predominantly men. Comparing the existing Arabic manuscripts – Sprenger 1368 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), Glaser 166 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), and Paris arabe 3639 (Bibliothèque nationale de France) – this article aims to show variance among the Arabic versions of ‘The Seven Viziers’ and their implications for the theme of misogyny that runs through the book. The variance, this article argues, is one of degree and not kind. Special attention is given to certain structural (story corpus), linguistic, and thematic elements (associations to the story of Potiphar and his wife in the Qurʾān), all of which have implications for the theme of misogyny. Finally, the article looks into the reception of the text, especially by general readers, who used it to confirm their negative perception of women.
Solar Textiles: Something New Under the Sun
Creators: name: Fairbanks, Marianne
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
Wrong side of the tracks: Big Data and Protected Categories
Creators: name: DeDeo, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When we use machine learning for public policy, we find that many useful variables are associated with others on which it would be ethically problematic to base decisions. This problem becomes particularly acute in the Big Data era, when predictions are often made in the absence of strong theories for underlying causal mechanisms. We describe the dangers to democratic decision-making when high-performance algorithms fail to provide an explicit account of causation. We then demonstrate how information theory allows us to degrade predictions so that they decorrelate from protected variables with minimal loss of accuracy. Enforcing total decorrelation is at best a near-term solution, however. The role of causal argument in ethical debate urges the development of new, interpretable machine-learning algorithms that reference causal mechanisms.
description: 12 pages. Extended discussion
The optimal shape of an object for generating maximum gravity field at a given point in space
Creators: name: Wang, Xiao-Wei
name: Su, Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How can we design the shape of an object, in the framework of Newtonian gravity, in order to generate maximum gravity at a given point in space? In this work we present a study on this interesting problem. We obtain compact solutions for all dimensional cases. The results are commonly characterized by a simple "physical" feature that any mass element unit on the object surface generates the same gravity strength at the considered point, in the direction along the rotational symmetry axis.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures; published version
A streptococcal lipid toxin induces membrane permeabilization and pyroptosis leading to fetal injury
Creators: name: Ezekwe, E. A. D.
name: Gundlach, J. H.
name: Liggitt, D.
name: Boldenow, E.
name: Doering, K.
name: Vornhagen, J.
name: Ngo, L.
name: Duncan, J. A.
name: Rajagopal, L.
name: Samson, J. M.
name: Elovitz, M. A.
name: Adams Waldorf, K. M.
name: Gendrin, C.
name: Whidbey, C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Group B streptococci (GBS) are Gram-positive bacteria that cause infections in utero and in newborns. We recently showed that the GBS pigment is hemolytic and increased pigment production promotes bacterial penetration of human placenta. However, mechanisms utilized by the hemolytic pigment to induce host cell lysis and the consequence on fetal injury are not known. Here, we show that the GBS pigment induces membrane permeability in artificial lipid bilayers and host cells. Membrane defects induced by the GBS pigment trigger K+ efflux leading to osmotic lysis of red blood cells or pyroptosis in human macrophages. Macrophages lacking the NLRP3 inflammasome recovered from pigment-induced cell damage. In a murine model of in utero infection, hyperpigmented GBS strains induced fetal injury in both an NLRP3 inflammasome-dependent and NLRP3 inflammasome-independent manner. These results demonstrate that the dual mechanism of action of the bacterial pigment/lipid toxin leading to hemolysis or pyroptosis exacerbates fetal injury and suggest that preventing both activities of the hemolytic lipid is likely critical to reduce GBS fetal injury and preterm birth.
Enhancing communication effectiveness for people with Primary Progressive Aphasia
Creators: name: Taylor-Rubin, Cathleen
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In primary progressive aphasia (PPA), the loss of ability to communicate severely impacts multiple facets of life for the individual and their close others. The research reported in this thesis aims to advance the evidence base for behavioural interventions for people living with PPA. The first study (Chapter 2) suggests the characteristics of people with PPA who are likely to adhere to lexical retrieval treatment and who may, therefore, optimally benefit from, and be preferred candidates for treatment. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on generalisation of positive gains from treatment to connected speech. A Cueing experiment (Chapter 3) examines the ability of people with PPA to produce verb phrases, when provided with a spoken or written verb or noun cue. Across the case series, both verb and noun cueing are shown to significantly improve verb phrase production, with provision of the verb significantly more effective than provision of the noun. This is further investigated in Chapter 4 where, in five single case studies, individuals with PPA participate in a sequence of verb and noun treatments. Production of treated nouns and/or verbs in isolation are shown to significantly improve following treatment for four of five participants. Two participants with semantic variant PPA demonstrate generalisation to production of treated verbs in verb phrases. Verb phrase production improves most after lexical retrieval treatment of both nouns and verbs, suggesting this may be the most fruitful approach for clinical practice. Finally, the benefits of a group PPA-specific education and support session in the early post diagnosis period were evaluated (Chapter 5). Caregivers and people with PPA report significant benefits from the intervention; particularly from increased knowledge, support and practical coping strategies. In summary, this thesis provides evidence of the utility of a range of behavioural interventions for enhancing communication for people with PPA and their close others and has direct clinical application.
title: S.Virchow infection and the immune responses produced in poultry
Creators: name: Salisbury, Anne
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: Relatively little is known about Salmonella Virchow as a pathogen. Its prevalence varies from country to country, however it is constantly associated with invasive disease, particularly in children and the immuno-compromised. The main sources of S. Virchow are humans and poultry. The aims of this study were to determine the genetic relatedness of S. Virchow isolates from difference sources in England, to characterise its infection biology using in vitro and in vivo based models, to establish the immune response produced by poultry in response to infection with the serovar and to begin to determine the level of protection and cross-protection that could be achieved against the serovar and S. Typhimurium. The genetic relatedness of the S. Virchow isolates was determined using molecular typing techniques including MLST and PFGE. The isolates were screened for the presence of 12 virulence genes that have been associated with adhesion, invasion and persistence. Human and avian cell lines and in vivo poultry infection experiments were used to characterise S. Virchow’s invasiveness, persistence and ability to elicit an immune response, compared to a well characterised S. Typhimurium isolate. Immune responses were evaluated by immunohistochemistry, RT-PCR and ELISA, to establish aspects of the innate, cellular and humoral response, as well as cytokine and chemokine expression. An in vivo poultry infection experiment was performed to gain an indication of the level of protection and cross-protection offered by primary infection with S. Virchow against secondary infection. Bacteriology, ELISA and western blot methods were used analyse this. Overall, S. Virchow appears to be a relatively clonal serovar, regardless of the source and the results indicate this is widespread and not solely in the UK. All of the isolates possessed the 12 virulence genes, which could contribute to its virulence in some hosts. S. Virchow was particularly persistent and inflammatory in the human Caco2 cells, which is consistent with the increased virulence previously reported in humans. The in vitro HD11 assay and the in vivo poultry infection experiments were consistent in showing S. Virchow colonises the chicken intestine to high levels, causes transient systemic infection and stimulates a moderate inflammatory response, very similar to S. Typhimurium infection. S. Virchow infection stimulated all aspects of the chicken immune system, characteristic of a broad-range serovar. Initial results from the in vivo protection experiment showed primary infection with S. Virchow does offer some protection against systemic invasion, although adequate protection against caecal colonisation was not found. However, 2 proteins were identified that strongly reacted and cross-reacted with sera from infected chickens, providing optimism that a vaccine to protect against S. Virchow colonisation could be developed with further research.
From the cradle to the grave: molecular chaperones that may choose between folding and degradation
Creators: name: Cyr, D. M.
name: Hohfeld, J.
name: Patterson, C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Molecular chaperones are known to facilitate cellular protein folding. They bind non-native proteins and orchestrate the folding process in conjunction with regulatory cofactors that modulate the affinity of the chaperone for its substrate. However, not every attempt to fold a protein is successful and chaperones can direct misfolded proteins to the cellular degradation machinery for destruction. Protein quality control thus appears to involve close cooperation between molecular chaperones and energy-dependent proteases. Molecular mechanisms underlying this interplay have been largely enigmatic so far. Here we present a novel concept for the regulation of the eukaryotic Hsp70 and Hsp90 chaperone systems during protein folding and protein degradation.
title: The r-map, c-map and black hole solutions
Creators: name: Vaughan, Owen
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: We consider various geometrical and physical aspects of the r-map and c-map, which are two maps induced by the dimensional reduction of 5d and 4d, N = 2 supergravity coupled to vector multiplets respectively. We treat reduction over a spacelike or timelike dimension on an equal footing, and prove, for the first time, that the target manifold in the image of the timelike c-map is para-quaternion Kahler. In order to do this we provide a new formulation of projective special Kahler geometry based on real Darboux coordinates, which is useful both mathematically and physically in its own right. As an application we investigate how the r-map and c-map can be used to generate new stationary black hole solutions. In four dimensions we construct new extremal non-BPS solutions, and in both four and five dimensions we construct new non-extremal solutions. We also take the first steps towards constructing new rotating solutions, though at this stage we only recover known solutions. The systematic and geometrical nature of these constructions allows us to gain a deeper understanding of many familiar properties of black holes in supergravity, such as the attractor mechanism and the transformation of BPS into non-BPS black holes using a field rotation matrix. We also observe an interesting and novel feature relating to non-extremal black holes: in order for solutions to correspond to non-extremal black holes with finite scalar fields we find that the number of integration constants must reduce by half. This suggests that non-extremal black holes always satisfy first order equations similar to their extremal counterparts. For STU-like models all calculations are performed explicitly.
Stoner ferromagnetism of a strongly interacting Fermi gas in the quasirepulsive regime
Creators: name: He, Lianyi
name: Liu, Xia-Ji
name: Huang, Xu-Guang
name: Hu, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances in rapidly quenched ultracold atomic Fermi gases near a Feshbach resonance have brought about a number of interesting problems, in the context of observing the long-sought Stoner ferromagnetic phase transition. The possibility of experimentally obtaining a "quasirepulsive" regime in the upper branch of the energy spectrum due to the rapid quench is currently being debated, and the Stoner transition has mainly been investigated theoretically by using perturbation theory or at high polarization, due to the limited theoretical approaches in the strongly repulsive regime. In this work, we present a nonperturbative theoretical approach to the quasirepulsive upper branch of a Fermi gas near a broad Feshbach resonance, and we determine the finite-temperature phase diagram for the Stoner instability. Our results agree well with the known quantum Monte-Carlo simulations at zero temperature, and we recover the known virial expansion prediction at high temperature for arbitrary interaction strengths. At resonance, we find that the Stoner transition temperature becomes of the order of the Fermi temperature, around which the molecule formation rate becomes vanishingly small. This suggests a feasible way to observe Stoner ferromagnetism in the nondegenerate temperature regime.
description: Published version in Physical Review A
title: Multi-agent data mining with negotiation: a study in multi-agent based clustering
Creators: name: Chaimontree, Santhana
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: Multi-Agent Data Mining (MADM) seeks to harness the general advantages offered by Multi-Agent System (MAS) with respect to the domain of data mining. The research described in this thesis is concerned with Multi-Agent Based Clustering (MABC), thus MADM to support clustering. To investigate the use of MAS technology with respect to data mining, and specifically data clustering, two approaches are proposed in this thesis. The first approach is a multi-agent based approach to clustering using a generic MADM framework whereby a collection of agents with different capabilities are allowed to collaborate to produce a ``best'' set of clusters. The framework supports three clustering paradigms: K-means, K-NN and divisive hierarchical clustering. A number of experiments were conducted using benchmark UCI data sets and designed to demonstrate that the proposed MADM approach can identify a best set of clusters using the following clustering metrics: F-measure, Within Group Average Distance (WGAD) and Between Group Average Distance (BGAD). The results demonstrated that the MADM framework could successfully be used to find a best cluster configuration. The second approach is an extension of the proposed initial MADM framework whereby a ``best'' cluster configuration could be found using cooperation and negotiation among agents. The novel feature of the extended framework is that it adopts a two-phase approach to clustering. Phase one is similar to the established centralised clustering approach (except that it is conducted in a decentralised manner). Phase two comprises a negotiation phase where agents ``swap'' unwanted records so as to improve a cluster configuration. A set of performatives is proposed as part of a negotiation protocol to facilitate intra-agent negotiation. It is this negotiation capability which is the central contribution of the work described in this thesis. An extensive evaluation of the extended framework was conducted using: (i) benchmark UCI data sets and (ii) a welfare benefits data set that provides an exemplar application. Evaluation of the framework clearly demonstrates that, in the majority of cases, this negotiation phase serves to produce a better cluster configuration (in terms of cohesion and separation) than that produced using a simple centralised approach.
title: Single molecule electronics in ionic liquid media
Creators: name: Kay, Nicola Julie
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: The field of single molecule electronics, where the charge transport properties of a variety of single molecular systems are investigated, has vastly increased in popularity over the last decade. This thesis in particular explores the single molecule conductance and electron transfer over a range of molecules in a room temperature ionic liquid medium. Prior to the work contained in this thesis, no conductance measurements of a single molecule had been recorded in a room temperature ionic liquid medium, to the best of our knowledge. Due to the novelty of room temperature ionic liquids in this field, it was decided that alkanedithiols would be an ideal starting point, largely due to their simplicity and reputation as a model system in single molecule electronics. Ionic liquids have several notable advantages as a medium in such measurements and the aim of the research contained in this thesis is first to show that ionic liquids are indeed a viable medium and secondly, to demonstrate their advantages over more widely used, conventional aqueous or organic media. The redox active molecular wire pyrrolo-tetrathiafulvalene is a particular molecule which would highlight the benefits of an ionic liquid medium, as it has a redox transition which is outside of the potential window available to aqueous electrolytes. Single molecule conductance measurements were obtained using a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), in particular, the current-distance I(s) technique, and for alkanedithiols also the STM break junction technique. The electrochemistry of pyrrolo-tetrathiafulvalene was investigated using cyclic voltammetry and a monolayer of pyrrolo-tetrathiafulvalene was characterised using polarisation modulation infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (PM-IRRAS).
Making Waves: the Global Reach of a Cornish Village
Creators: name: Ripley, Julie
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
Extended Chaplygin Gas in Horava-Lifshitz Gravity
Creators: name: Pourhassan, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate cosmological models of the extended Chaplygin gas in a universe governed by Horava-Lifshitz gravity. The equation of state for an extended Chaplygin gas is a $(n+2)$-variable equation determined by $A_{n}$, $α$, and $B$. In this work, we are interested to the case of second order $(n=2)$ equation of state which recovers quadratic barotropic equation of state. In that case there are four free parameters. We solve conservation equation approximately and obtain energy density in terms of scale factor with mentioned free parameters. Under some assumptions we relate free parameters to each other to have only one free independent parameter $(A_{2})$. It help us to obtain explicit expression for energy density in terms of scale factor. The allowed values of the second order extended Chaplygin gas parameter is fixed using the recent astrophysical and cosmological observational data. Thermodynamics of the model investigated based on the first and second law of thermodynamics.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for Publication in Physics of the Dark Universe
Weaving DNA: An Exploration of Notions of Identity and the Re-appropriation of Textiles
Creators: name: Anderson, Claire
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
Does Anyone Have a Pattern for a Sombrero to Fit a Monkey?' Knit and Crochet Amateurs Sharing Making in Online / Offline Crafting Communities
Creators: name: Mayne, Alison
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4