cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Anticipatory Inventory Management For Realizing Robust Production Processes In Engineer-To-Order Manufacturing: A Modeling Approach
Creators: name: Wenzel, Alexander
name: Hingst, Lennart
name: Nyhuis, Peter
Publisher: name: Hannover : publish-Ing.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Production Planning and Control (PPC)
subject: Inventory Management
subject: Safety stock
subject: Robustness
subject: Engineer-to-order (ETO)
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: At ever shorter intervals, manufacturing and processing companies of all industries are confronted with external or internal disruptions and crises that need to be managed. Consequently, a corporate focus on robust supply chains and processes is essential. At the same time, crises and their impact on supply chains cannot be predicted. To be able to act anticipatively, it is necessary to link product and production system design to take suitable measures to safeguard production at an early stage. In this context, a monetary conflict of objectives arises concerning when a company should position itself robustly and when it is sufficient to react flexibly to disruptions. The production planning and control (PPC) task inventory management is an essential lever for realizing robust order fulfilment processes. Inventory management aims to ensure that production and assembly within the company are supplied in the right quantities and without lateness. In particular, companies that operate according to the engineer-to-order strategy (ETO) face specific challenges in dimensioning stocks for materials or components - for example, due to the low level of standardization or lack of supplier diversity. This paper presents an approach for anticipatory inventory management using product portfolio characteristics. A new modeling approach for dimensioning safety stocks under the increasing influence of crises is also developed and integrated into the process.
Investigation of the compaction behavior of uni- and bidirectional non-crimp fabrics
Creators: name: Schäfer, Bastian
name: Zheng, Ruochen
name: Philippe, Boisse
name: Kärger, Luise
Publisher: name: Materials Research Forum LLC
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fabrics/Textiles
Experimental Characterization
UD-NCF
Biax-NCF

description: The through-thickness compaction behavior of engineering textiles significantly influences the resulting component properties during liquid composite molding processes (LCM). It determines the final fiber volume content and thus the necessary press force, the permeability as well as the final mechanical properties. In the present work, the behavior of a uni- and bidirectional carbon fiber non-crimp fabric (UD- & Biax-NCF) with the same fiber type and areal density of fibers in the respective main reinforcement directions is tested in a punch-to-plate setup. Thereby, the influence of the relative fiber orientation at the interfaces of a layup as well as the number of plies is investigated. A combined influence of roving nesting and superposition of stitching patterns is observed. This results in a common influence of decreasing resistance to compaction for higher numbers of layers, while the relative orientation of the interfaces in a layup is only significant for the Biax-NCF.
A-geometrical approach to Topological Insulators with defects
Creators: name: Schmeltzer, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of the propagation of electrons with a varying spinor orientability is performed using the coordinate transformation method. Topological Insulators are characterized by an odd number of changes of the orientability in the Brillouin zone. For defects the change in orientability takes place for closed orbits in real space. Both cases are characterized by nontrivial spin connections. Using this method , we derive the form of the spin connections for topological defects in three dimensional Topological Insulators. On the surface of a Topological Insulator, the presence an edge dislocation gives rise to a spin connection controlled by torsion. We find that electrons propagate along two dimensional regions and confined circular contours. We compute for the edge dislocations the tunneling density of states. The edge dislocations violates parity symmetry resulting in a current measured by the in-plane component of the spin on the surface.
Between Nationalism and Neoliberalism: Problematizing Immigration in Canada and Australia
Creators: name: Karim, Natasha
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Immigration Policy
subject: Governmentality
subject: Biopolitics
subject: Intersectionality
subject: News Media Framing
subject: Critical Discourse Analysis
subject: Mass Communications

description: Through conducting a critical discourse analysis of Canada’s and Australia’s immigration policies and national news media framing of immigration, informed by an intersectional and Foucauldian foundation, this thesis exposes and challenges the fundamental assumptions associated with the ideologies of nationalism and neoliberalism that underlie the way the notion of immigration has been conceptualized and problematized within these discourses. Furthermore, by deconstructing the structures of policy and media and the underlying principles, this study demonstrates how personal identifiers are incorporated into the dominant understanding of what it means to be an immigrant in juxtaposition to what it means to be Canadian or Australian on several levels of identification. Lastly, the findings of this study demonstrate the implications that result from how the concept of immigration has been problematized and the role that personal identifiers play for those whose existence had been framed as an issue.
Flow states in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection as a function of aspect-ratio and Rayleigh number
Creators: name: van der Poel, Erwin P.
name: Stevens, Richard J. A. M.
name: Sugiyama, Kazuyasu
name: Lohse, Detlef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this numerical study on two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection we consider $10^7 \leq Ra \leq 10^{12}$ in aspect ratio $0.23 \leq Γ\leq 13$ samples. We focus on several cases. First we consider small aspect ratio cells, where at high Ra number we find a sharp transition from a low Ra number branch towards a high Ra number branch, due to changes in the flow structure. Subsequently, we show that the influence of the aspect ratio on the heat transport decreases with increasing aspect ratio, although even at very large aspect ratio of $Γ\approx10$ variations up to 2.5% in the heat transport as a function of Γare observed. Finally, we observe long-lived transients up to at least $Ra=10^9$, as in certain aspect ratio cells we observe different flow states that are stable for thousands of turnover times.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Taphonomy and palaeoecology of mixed invertebrate-vertebrate fossil assemblage in the Foremost Formation (cretaceous, campanian), Milk River Valley, Alberta
Creators: name: Frampton, Emily Katherine
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2006

description: Bibliography: p. 266-294
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Some pages are oversized.
description: The Pinhorn Ranch North site is a mixed invertebrate-vertebrate fossil assemblage deposited in the Foremost Formation (Campanian, Cretaceous), a marginal marine environment dominated by nearshore marine, barrier island and lagoonal deposits. The assemblage was deposited in a restricted brackish water environment that developed during a marine regression. This regression brought an influx of coarse sand and disarticulated skeletal elements of terrestrial to freshwater taxa. The regression occurred in an overall trangressive system, from which marine taxa were contributed to the assemblage. The brackish water environment is therefore the environment of deposition, with brackish water fauna contributed directly to the assemblage through natural mortality. Myledaphus psilatus, n.sp. was a major disturbing force in the assemblage, using it as a food source. Myledaphus is a durophagous predator and scavenger, crushing hard-shelled bivalves and gastropods, mixing up the deposited material and adding extensive shell hash to the deposit.
Glassy behavior in a binary atomic mixture
Creators: name: Gadway, Bryce
name: Pertot, Daniel
name: Reeves, Jeremy
name: Vogt, Matthias
name: Schneble, Dominik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally study one-dimensional, lattice-modulated Bose gases in the presence of an uncorrelated disorder potential formed by localized impurity atoms, and compare to the case of correlated quasi-disorder formed by an incommensurate lattice. While the effects of the two disorder realizations are comparable deeply in the strongly interacting regime, both showing signatures of Bose glass formation, we find a dramatic difference near the superfluid-to-insulator transition. In this transition region, we observe that random, uncorrelated disorder leads to a shift of the critical lattice depth for the breakdown of transport as opposed to the case of correlated quasi-disorder, where no such shift is seen. Our findings, which are consistent with recent predictions for interacting bosons in one dimension, illustrate the important role of correlations in disordered atomic systems.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
EdgeTDC: On the Security of Time Difference of Arrival Measurements in CAN Bus Systems
Creators: name: Roeschlin, Marc
name: Camurati, Giovanni
name: Brunner, Pascal
name: Mridula, Singh
name: Srdjan, Capkun
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: A Controller Area Network (CAN bus) is a message- based protocol for intra-vehicle communication designed mainly with robustness and safety in mind. In real-world deployments, CAN bus does not offer common security features such as message authentication. Due to the fact that automotive suppliers need to guarantee interoperability, most manufacturers rely on a decade- old standard (ISO 11898) and changing the format by introducing MACs is impractical. Research has therefore suggested to address this lack of authentication with CAN bus Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) that augment the bus with separate modules. IDSs attribute messages to the respective sender by measuring physical- layer features of the transmitted frame. Those features are based on timings, voltage levels, transients—and, as of recently, Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) measurements. In this work, we show that TDoA-based approaches presented in prior art are vulnerable to novel spoofing and poisoning attacks. We describe how those proposals can be fixed and present our own method called EdgeTDC. Unlike existing methods, EdgeTDC does not rely on Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with high sampling rate and high dynamic range to capture the signals at sample level granularity. Our method uses time-to-digital converters (TDCs) to detect the edges and measure their timings. Despite being inexpensive to implement, TDCs offer low latency, high location precision and the ability to measure every single edge (rising and falling) in a frame. Measuring each edge makes analog sampling redundant and allows the calculation of statistics that can even detect tampering with parts of a message. Through extensive experimentation, we show that EdgeTDC can successfully thwart masquerading attacks in the CAN system of modern vehicles.
title: Odd, unnatural activities: the writing of a philosophical novel
Creators: name: Harvey, S
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this study is to find which practical aspects of craft are open to the realist novelist when writing philosophical fiction. Plato began a long tradition of intelligent thought on the subject, but even amongst novelists the discussion does not often sit at the practitioner's level, and does not address the how-to questions that arise when an author tries to write philosophical content into a fictional narrative. In Section I, this study defines 'philosophical content' to characterise not only a body of enquiries that belong to western philosophical discourse, but also the mode these enquiries take, which, it is contended, is that of directness and discursiveness. The study then explores how such content can enter a novel's narrative in a way that is not unduly compromising to either the philosophy or the novel. The author's own novel, All Is Song — which is the creative counterpart to this study -provides the portal for this exploration. Sections II, V and VII revisit the philosophical content of a particular scene in the novel to see how it evolves with each rewrite and to trace the decision-making involved in the management of that content. Section III deals with an objection to the study's definition of philosophy and a 'philosophical novel', after which the remaining sections, IV, VI and VIII look respectively at the problems abstract ideas pose to literary realism, some responses to those problems as they pertain to the author's novel writing, and the degree to which All Is Song could be considered successful in fulfilling both its philosophical and literary aims. Through this analysis and reflection, the study finds that while dialogue, in the Socratic tradition, is and remains one key way of realising discursive philosophy within a narrative, a far wider and deeper structuralising of that content is needed to make the contending ideas lived and felt. It holds that once such structuralisation has taken place, a novel is not bound to the full execution of a discursive argument of the sort that exists in Platonic dialogues, say, and can express and sort philosophical ideas using an array of literary tools. The Conclusion (Section IX) suggests that this in part signals a move towards a less Platonic, more phenomenological sense of the way in which ideas can be given reality, and thus given form in the realism of the novel. The study does not conclude, however, that all discursive content should thus be 'dissolved' into extra-philosophical situations and events, but that the latter should act always to structuralise, exemplify, amplify and animate an idea or principle, and to give it as full a literary life as possible.
Kaon Condensation in a Neutron Star under Strong Magnetic Fields by Using the Modified Quark-meson Coupling Model
Creators: name: Ryu, C. Y.
name: Hong, S. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have considered the antikaon condensation in a neutron star in the presence of strong magnetic fields by using the modified quark-meson coupling (MQMC) model. The structure of the neutron star is investigated with various magnetic fields and different kaon optical potentials, and the effects of the magnetic fields for kaon condensation is discussed. When employing strong magnetic fields inside a neutron star with hyperons and kaon condensation, the magnetic fields can cause the equation of state to be stiff; thus, a large maximum mass of the neutron star can be obtained.
description: published in J. Korean Phys.Soc
Design and applications of improved hyphenation and separation strategies for multidimensional biomolecule characterization
Creators: name: Maxwell, Elizabeth Jane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: A novel interface for capillary electrophoresis – electrospray ionization – mass spectrometry (CE-ESI-MS) has been developed with the goal of providing a robust and easy-to-use hyphenation strategy that also provides high sensitivity. The interface uses a tapered stainless steel needle that surrounds the capillary terminus, so that the needle interior acts as the CE outlet vial and the outside tip is the electrospray emitter. A chemical modifier solution, introduced via a tee junction, serves to improve the compatibility of the background electrolyte with ESI and allows the interface to operate under conditions where the bulk flow in the capillary is suppressed or reversed. A major novel feature of the interface is the use of a beveled conductive needle as the ESI emitter. Because electric field is highest at the sharpest edge of an electrode, liquid exiting the needle is drawn to the sharpest point of the bevel, whereas for a conventional symmetrically tapered emitter the field is equally distributed around the circumference of the tip. Electrospray performance as a function of flow rate was investigated for a variety of emitter geometries. The beveled emitters provided a more stable and efficient electrospray over a wider range of flow rates than traditional emitters. The second part of the thesis describes the application of the CE-ESI-MS interface with the beveled emitter to a variety of biomolecular species, including peptides, proteins and carbohydrates. These applications include the use of a variety of capillary coatings and separation conditions where the electroosmotic flow is suppressed or even reversed, so that the bulk flow in the CE capillary is away from the interface. The interface was also used to interface capillary isoelectric focusing (cIEF) with MS detection, enabling free solution and fully automated protein analysis that is analogous to 2D gel electrophoresis. The final part of the thesis examines the viability of a two-marker correction strategy for improving retention time reproducibility in reversed-phase liquid chromatography. Although the strategy provided up to a ten-fold improvement in reproducibility for repeated separations, the correction was not successful in relating retention times obtained under different gradient conditions.
title: Educationalist working in urban areas
Creators: name: Riddell, R
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2012

description: This submission provides a commentary on thirteen of Richard Riddell’s publications between 1999 and 2010. It explains the professional and policy contexts from the early 1990s onwards, when the author was a senior Local Authority officer, which gave rise to the thinking behind the first phase of his publications. These included the development of a bespoke school improvement process, deeply rooted in the context of the communities served by a school, and involving the development of an urban pedagogy and curricula. The centre piece of this phase was Schools for Our Cities (Riddell, 2003b). Attention then moved for phase 2 of the publications towards the social processes outside school that advantage middle class children within it. Research for this phase identified a managed model of social reproduction being operated by middle class families with children at independent schools, and an independent school/prestigious university nexus. Policy interventions of the 2000s might have begun to create analogous kinds of social processes for working class children, but they are no longer in place. The central piece for phase 2 was Aspiration, Identity and Self-Belief (Riddell, 2010).
SU(3) phase states and finite Fourier transform
Creators: name: Zanette, Brandon
name: de Guise, Hubert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the construction of SU(3) phase operators using Fourier-like transform on a hexagonal lattice. The advantages and disadvantages of this approach are contrasted with other results, in particular with the more traditional approach based on polar decomposition of operators.
description: to appear in Physica Scripta
Trauma and Resilience in Aboriginal Adult Learners' Post-Secondary Experience
Creators: name: Lindstrom, Gabrielle Ellen
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Indigenous adult learners
subject: Higher Education
subject: trauma
subject: resilience
subject: Education--Adult and Continuing
subject: Education--Guidance and Counseling
subject: Education--Higher
subject: Native American Studies
subject: Mental Health

description: Informed by my own experiences as an Indigenous adult learner, this study explored the interplay between trauma and resilience in the post-secondary educational experiences of Indigenous adult learners. There were nine participants and I utilized two methods of data collection. In one focus group session, I gathered the perspectives of three post-secondary student support professionals who worked closely with Indigenous adult learners. I conducted single, individual interviews with each of six Indigenous adult learners who were students at one of four major post-secondary institutes in a large city in a Western prairie province. Employing a focused ethnography informed by Indigenous philosophy and Western theory, the purpose of my research was to determine the interplay between trauma and resilience as a potential pathway to improve educational experiences for Indigenous students. One question was central to my research endeavor: how do Indigenous post-secondary students understand and make meaning of their responses to traumatic experiences within a social context that is informed by Canada's colonial history? The focus group session and individual interviews were digitally recorded with the consent of all participants, and personally transcribed. The findings from the data yielded important insights into the ways that trauma experiences and resultant barriers impacted Indigenous students’ ability to succeed and highlighted a process of growth that arose from struggle. The students’ stories held an overwhelming amount of struggle, suffering, loss and trauma which seemed to surround the student participants as they embarked on their post-secondary educational journeys. However, I found threads of hope scattered across each story. These were the fibres that were woven into the fabric which envelops Indigenous cultures – those unmistakable moments in which the students’ perseverance, endurance and determination glimmered brightly and rose above the struggle. A distinct conceptualization of resilience was contextualized within an Indigenous worldview that could be used to inform pedagogical approaches and offers valuable insights for post-secondary administrators and educators into how best to support and foster the success of Indigenous students. My hope is that in sharing these stories of suffering, we can create new opportunities for learning through a pedagogy of resilience.
Drone Security and the Mysterious Case of DJI's DroneID
Creators: name: Schiller, Nico
name: Chlosta, Merlin
name: Schloegel, Moritz
name: Bars, Nils
name: Eisenhofer, Thorsten
name: Scharnowski, Tobias
name: Domke, Felix
name: Schönherr, Lea
name: Holz, Thorsten
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Consumer drones enable high-class aerial video photography, promise to reform the logistics industry, and are already used for humanitarian rescue operations and during armed conflicts. Contrasting their widespread adoption and high popularity, the low entry barrier for air mobility - a traditionally heavily regulated sector - poses many risks to safety, security, and privacy. Malicious parties could, for example, (mis-)use drones for surveillance, transportation of illegal goods, or cause economic damage by intruding the closed airspace over airports. To prevent harm, drone manufacturers employ several countermeasures to enforce safe and secure use of drones, e.g., they impose software limits regarding speed and altitude, or use geofencing to implement no-fly zones around airports or prisons. Complementing traditional countermeasures, drones from the market leader DJI implement a protocol called DroneID, which is designed to transmit the position of both the drone and its operator to authorized entities such as law enforcement or operators of critical infrastructures. In this paper, we analyze security and privacy claims for drones, focusing on the leading manufacturer DJI with a market share of 94%. We first systemize the drone attack surface and investigate an attacker capable of eavesdropping on the drone's over-the-air data traffic. Based on reverse engineering of DJI firmware, we design and implement a decoder for DJI's proprietary tracking protocol DroneID using only cheap COTS hardware. We show that the transmitted data is not encrypted, but accessible to anyone, compromising the drone operator's privacy. Second, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of drone security: Using a combination of reverse engineering, a novel fuzzing approach tailored to DJI's communication protocol, and hardware analysis, we uncover several critical flaws in drone firmware that allow attackers to gain elevated privileges on two different DJI drones and their remote control. Such root access paves the way to disable or bypass countermeasures and abuse drones. These vulnerabilities have the potential to be triggered remotely, causing the drone to crash mid-flight.
Fundamental statistical limitations of future dark matter direct detection experiments
Creators: name: Strege, Charlotte
name: Trotta, Roberto
name: Bertone, Gianfranco
name: Peter, Annika H. G.
name: Scott, Pat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss irreducible statistical limitations of future ton-scale dark matter direct detection experiments. We focus in particular on the coverage of confidence intervals, which quantifies the reliability of the statistical method used to reconstruct the dark matter parameters, and the bias of the reconstructed parameters. We study 36 benchmark dark matter models within the reach of upcoming ton-scale experiments. We find that approximate confidence intervals from a profile-likelihood analysis exactly cover or over-cover the true values of the WIMP parameters, and are hence conservative. We evaluate the probability that unavoidable statistical fluctuations in the data might lead to a biased reconstruction of the dark matter parameters, or large uncertainties on the reconstructed parameter values. We show that this probability can be surprisingly large, even for benchmark models leading to a large event rate of order a hundred counts. We find that combining data sets from two different targets leads to improved coverage properties, as well as a substantial reduction of statistical bias and uncertainty on the dark matter parameters.
description: 17 pages, 18 figures
title: How can I reconceptualise international educational partnerships as a form of 'living citizenship'?
Creators: name: Potts, M A
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2012

description: This PhD research project is about developing pedagogy for citizenship education through the establishment of an international partnership. Whilst there is a clear national curriculum framework in England for the delivery of citizenship education as originally established by the QCA , it became apparent to the researcher that the pedagogical framework for the delivery of global citizenship education is only partially formed. The project looks at how over a ten year period the partnership activities between Salisbury High School and Nqabakazulu School in the black township of Kwamashu in Durban, South Africa have influenced the education of the participants. Through a series of reciprocal visits, some funded by the British Council, and through curriculum activities, fundraising activities and personal contacts the partnership has developed to become a powerful influence on the lives of the participants. As it has developed certain underpinning values have emerged. These values have been articulated as social justice, equal opportunities and the African notion of Ubuntu, or humanity. The partnership between the schools has enabled the teaching of these values in a meaningful context. The research methodology is a participatory action research approach with the use of video, pictures and commentary to show the educational influence on the lives of the people in these communities. This has enabled the author to reflect on how the activities of the partnership have influenced the education of himself and his fellow participants. As a result of this study there will be three original contributions to knowledge: 1. The development of a transferable method for systematically analysing the large amount of qualitative data. 2. A range of transferable pedagogical protocols for citizenship education that can be derived from school international partnerships together with recommendations for government policy on how best to extend educational partnerships and implement international CPD between UK and South African schools. 3. An examination of the notion of ‘Living Citizenship’ and exemplification of it in practice through engagement in the activities of an international educational partnership.
หมอลำต่อต้านคอมมิวนิสต์ในภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือของไทย (ปลายทศวรรษ 2490 ถึงต้นทศวรรษ 2520)
Creators: name: สุรศักดิ์ สาระจิตร์
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2021
Subjects: หมอลำ
ต่อต้านคอมมิวนิสต์
สำนักข่าวสารอเมริกัน
ภาคอีสาน

description: วารสารประวัติศาสตร์ ธรรมศาสตร์, 8, 2, 139-168
Bonum ex machina
Creators: name: Collings, Evangelian
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: machine
subject: philosophy of action
subject: agency
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: In this thesis, I consider the question “Can a machine be an agent?” and argue that the answer to this question is no. The main basis for this answer is in the relationship that machines have – or rather, lack – to the goods that make up reasons for action. The main argument for this appears in the first two chapters. There, I explain the links between agents, reasons, and goods. Chapters three and four elaborate upon what counts as having reasons for action by way of addressing objections to my claim that machines do not act for reasons. The fifth and final chapter considers the difficulty of agency as a design problem, and emphasizes my argument’s basis in the relationship between humans and machines.
title: “The bloodiest record in the book of time”: Amy Horne and the Indian uprising of 1857, in fact and fiction
Creators: name: Breckon, I
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation comprises a novel and a critical study. It is an exploration of the possible literary and historical representations of the Horne narratives, a collection of documents from the 1857 Indian uprising. Amy Horne, a young woman of mixed European and Indian descent, was a survivor of the massacre at Cawnpore. Converted to Islam and married to an Indian soldier, she spent ten months in captivity with the rebel forces, before returning to British-controlled territory. She subsequently produced several different accounts of her experiences. The critical study is a detailed examination of these narratives, the contexts of their composition and their position within the contemporary historical record. My research, which has included archival reading in India and England, has uncovered both contradictions within the narratives and supporting evidence for their claims. I argue that in order to use such contentious material effectively in fiction, a full recognition of the possibilities of interpretation is vitally important. I further suggest that a close and comparative reading of the narratives, informed by an awareness of Horne’s own cultural and ethnic status within British society, reveals a dissonant relationship with the discourses of Imperial history, and allows a potentially subversive understanding of Horne’s story.
A second order algebraic knot concordance group
Creators: name: Powell, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M27, 55U15, 57N70 (Primary), 57M05, 57M10, 57R65, 57R67, 57P10 (Secondary)

description: We define an algebraic group comprising symmetric chain complexes which captures the first two stages of the Cochran-Orr-Teichner solvable filtration of the knot concordance group in a single invariant. To achieve this we impose additional structure on each chain complex which puts extra control on the fundamental groups, and in particular on the way in which they can change in a concordance.
description: 51 pages, 2 figures. This a considerably shortened version of arXiv:1109.0761, to appear in Algebraic and Geometric Topology
Cheap Space-Based Microlens Parallaxes for High-Magnification Events
Creators: name: Gould, Andrew
name: Yee, Jennifer C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that for high-magnification (Amax > 100) microlensing events, accurate microlens parallaxes can be obtained from three or fewer photometric measurements from a small telescope on a satellite in solar orbit at ~1 AU from Earth. This is 1--2 orders of magnitude less observing resources than are required for standard space-based parallaxes. Such microlens parallax measurements would yield accurate mass and distance measurements to the lens for all cases in which finite-source effects were observed from the ground over peak. This would include virtually all high-magnification events with detected planets and a substantial fraction of those without. Hence it would permit accurate estimates of the Galactic distribution of planets.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJ Letters
Additional file 1: of Epidemiological characterization of respiratory tract infections caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae during epidemic and post-epidemic periods in North China, from 2011 to 2016
Creators: name: Qu, Jiuxin
name: Yang, Chunxia
name: Bao, Fang
name: Chen, Shuyan
name: Gu, Li
name: Cao, Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Age distribution of total cases and M. pneumoniae infected patients. (DOCX 22 kb)
สมมุติว่ามี "ล้านนา": พื้นที่ อำนาจ-ความรู้ และมรดกของอาณานิคมสยาม
Creators: name: ทินกฤต สิรีรัตน์
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2021
Subjects: ล้านนา
ล้านนาไทย
พื้นที่
อำนาจ-ความรู้
ประวัติศาสตร์นิพนธ์หลังอาณานิคม

description: วารสารประวัติศาสตร์ ธรรมศาสตร์, 8, 2, 169-202
Direct observation of competition between superconductivity and charge density wave order in YBa2Cu3Oy
Creators: name: Chang, J.
name: Blackburn, E.
name: Holmes, A. T.
name: Christensen, N. B.
name: Larsen, J.
name: Mesot, J.
name: Liang, Ruixing
name: Bonn, D. A.
name: Hardy, W. N.
name: Watenphul, A.
name: Zimmermann, M. v.
name: Forgan, E. M.
name: Hayden, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductivity often emerges in the proximity of, or in competition with, symmetry breaking ground states such as antiferromagnetism or charge density waves (CDW)1-5. A number of materials in the cuprate family, which includes the high-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors, show spin and charge density wave order5-7. Thus a fundamental question is to what extent these ordered states exist for compositions close to optimal for superconductivity. Here we use high-energy x-ray diffraction to show that a CDW develops at zero field in the normal state of superconducting YBa2Cu3O6.67 (Tc = 67 K). Below Tc, the application of a magnetic field suppresses superconductivity and enhances the CDW. Hence, the CDW and superconductivity are competing orders in this typical high-Tc superconductor, and high-Tc superconductivity can form from a pre-existing CDW state. Our results explain observations of small Fermi surface pockets8, negative Hall and Seebeck effect9,10 and the "Tc plateau"11 in this material when underdoped.
description: Supplementary Information is available on request
Wide-band cmos low noise amplifier for the sqare kilometer array radio telescope
Creators: name: Belostotski, Leonid
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 119-133
description: The design of a new radio telescope known as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is well under way in the international astronomical community. lt is expected that the telescope will require a large number of antenna elements, significantly impacting the overall tele­scope cost. This thesis presents a feasibility study to employ relatively inexpensive and rapidly developing CMOS technologies, rather than exotic GaAs and lnP semiconductor technologies, to implement the low noise amplifiers (LNAs) attached to each antenna ele­ment. To demonstrate the feasibility of using a wide-band CMOS LNA in the SKA telescope, a number of steps were taken in this work: LNA optimization procedures based on different design constraints were created, a wide-band LNA topology was introduced, and issues associated with the integration of SKA antenna elements with the LNAs were investigated. The new LNA optimization technique improved the widely accepted narrow-band cas­code optimization by incorporating the noises due to losses in the gate inductor and the gate finger resistance. This optimization was further improved by using a two-port approach to model the noise parameters and electrical parameters of the LNA. The new wide-band topology was described and experimentally verified. Two designs of the LNAs based on the wide-band topology are presented. A 90-nm CMOS 50 n design nearly meets all the specifications required by the SKA and achieves an excellent wide­band power match and the lowest noise figure published for CMOS LNAs prior to this work. A differential version of this LNA was created to assess the feasibility of using a differential LNA in the SKA telescope. The feasibility of allowing for a non-standard impedance of the custom made antenna elements is also discussed, culminating in the design of a 90-nm CMOS LNA achieving sub-0.2 dB noise figure in the 800 MHz to 1400 MHz frequency range and 511 < -11 dB while consuming 43 mW of power. This LNA meets all requirements of the SKA telescope and confirms that newer CMOS technologies are achieving noise figures low enough so that even sensitive radio telescopes can benefit from the low cost, high degree of integration offered by these technologies.
Viscous Little Rip Cosmology
Creators: name: Brevik, I.
name: Elizalde, E.
name: Nojiri, S.
name: Odintsov, S. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark energy of phantom or quintessence nature with an equation of state parameter $w$ almost equal to -1 often leads the universe evolution to a finite-time future singularity. An elegant solution to this problem has been recently proposed \cite{frampton11} under the form of the so-called Little Rip cosmology which appears to be a realistic alternative to the $Λ$CDM model. A viscous Little Rip cosmology is here proposed. Whereas generically bulk viscosity tends to promote the Big Rip, we find that there are a number of situations where this is not the case and where the formalism nicely adjusts itself to the Little Rip scenario. We prove, in particular, that a viscous fluid (or, equivalently, one with an inhomogeneous (imperfect) equation of state) is perfectly able to produce a Little Rip cosmology as a purely viscosity effect. The possibility of its induction as a combined result of viscosity and a general (power-like) equation of state is also investigated in detail. To finish, a physical, inertial force interpretation of the dissolution of bound structures in the Little Rip cosmology is presented.
description: 10 pages, version to appear in PRD
Visser's Massive Gravity Bimetric Theory Revisited
Creators: name: de Roany, Alain
name: Chauvineau, Bertrand
name: Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A massive gravity theory was proposed by Visser in the late nineties. This theory, based on a backgroung metric $b_{αβ}$ and on an usual dynamical metric $g_{αβ}$ has the advantage of being free of ghosts as well as discontinuities present in other massive theories proposed in the past. In the present investigation, the equations of Visser's theory are revisited with a particular care on the related conservation laws.\ It will be shown that a multiplicative factor is missing in the graviton tensor originally derived by Visser, which has no incidence on the weak field approach but becomes important in the strong field regime when, for instance, cosmological applications are considered. In this case, contrary to some previous claims found in the literature, we conclude that a non-static background metric is required in order to obtain a solution able to mimic the $Λ$CDM cosmology.
description: 10 pages - Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Model Compound Study for the Catalytic Upgrading of Bio-derived Oil to Fuels and Valuable Chemicals under Methane Environment
Creators: name: Austin, Danielle
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Catalysis
subject: Methane Utilization
subject: Biomass
subject: Energy
subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Environmental

description: The technical feasibility of upgrading acetic acid, glycerol and acetone under methane environment to fuels and valuable chemicals has been investigated over various catalysts. These feedstocks represent model compounds for the acid, alcohol and ketone components of bio-derived oils. From a series of batch reactions, 5%Zn-1%Ga/ZSM-5(SiO2/Al2O3=23), 5%Zn-1%Cu-1%Ga/ZSM-5(SiO2/Al2O3=23) and 5%Zn-1%Ga/ZSM-5(SiO2/Al2O3=280) were determined to have the greatest catalytic performance for the aromatization of acetic acid, glycerol and acetone, respectively. Through systematical catalyst characterizations, the catalyst acidity and metal dispersion are identified as the most important factors when determining catalytic performance. Additionally, methane environment was found to enhance liquid yield, inhibit coke formation and to become incorporated into the liquid product by resorting to an isotopic labelling technique coupled with NMR and GC-MS. These findings lead to a better understanding of the interaction and reaction mechanism involved in the upgrading of biomass derived oxygenates under methane environment for fuels and valuable chemicals production, which could potentially contribute to a cost-effective substitution of petroleum derived chemicals and fuels for biomass derived products.
title: Audiovisual particles: parameter mapping as a framework for audiovisual composition
Creators: name: Callear, S
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis investigates the role of cross-modal correspondence within audiovisual composition, presenting both a conceptual model and a methodological framework for the creation of abstract audiovisual art. While this research is specifically aimed at the field of abstract digital animation it is also intended to act as a platform for the future development of concurrent audiovisual synthesis techniques within the general field of audiovisual art. Referencing literature regarding the psychophysiological bases for audiovisual integration, it is argued that temporal congruence offers a mechanism for the manipulation of cross-modal correspondence within audiovisual media. Further to this, electroacoustic and formalist theory is discussed with specific reference to the interrelationship of medium structures to enable the identification of a conceptual model for audiovisual composition. Referencing theory from the fields of musical instrument design and algorithmic composition, parameter mapping is identified as a mechanism for the modulation of temporal congruence. Its implementation within audiovisual composition is then discussed. Derived from both this and a conceptual parallel between the organisational structures of audio grains and visual particles, the audiovisual particles framework is presented as a methodological basis for the creation of abstract audiovisual art. The presented theory is supported by a series of demonstrative studies exploring both the practical application of the audiovisual particles framework and the role of parameter mapping within the process of audiovisual media generation. Experiential observations are discussed for each to inform future praxis. In addition, two audiovisual compositions are presented as both implementations of developed theory and as artworks in their own right.
Multiscale probability mapping: groups, clusters and an algorithmic search for filaments in SDSS
Creators: name: Smith, Anthony G.
name: Hopkins, Andrew M.
name: Hunstead, Richard W.
name: Pimbblet, Kevin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a multiscale structure identification algorithm for the detection of overdensities in galaxy data that identifies structures having radii within a user-defined range. Our "multiscale probability mapping" technique combines density estimation with a shape statistic to identify local peaks in the density field. This technique takes advantage of a user-defined range of scale sizes, which are used in constructing a coarse-grained map of the underlying fine-grained galaxy distribution, from which overdense structures are then identified. In this study we have compiled a catalogue of groups and clusters at 0.025 < z < 0.24 based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Data Release 7, quantifying their significance and comparing with other catalogues. Most measured velocity dispersions for these structures lie between 50 and 400 km/s. A clear trend of increasing velocity dispersion with radius from 0.2 to 1 Mpc/h is detected, confirming the lack of a sharp division between groups and clusters. A method for quantifying elongation is also developed to measure the elongation of group and cluster environments. By using our group and cluster catalogue as a coarse-grained representation of the galaxy distribution for structure sizes of
description: 22 pages, 14 figures and 6 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Data products, three-dimensional visualisations and further information about MSPM can be found at http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/sifa/Main/MSPM/ . v2 contains two additional references. v3 has a slightly altered title and updated references
ผู้หญิงกับความรักในนิตยสาร สตรีสาร ช่วงทศวรรษ 2490
Creators: name: เสนาะ เจริญพร
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2021
Subjects: ผู้หญิง
ความรัก
สตรีสาร

description: วารสารประวัติศาสตร์ ธรรมศาสตร์, 8, 2, 92-138