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Alquimistes Teatre
Creators: name: Ramírez, Verónica
name: Corral, Emili
name: Gajardo, Francia
Publisher: name: DARIAH-DE
Year: 2023
Subjects: Comic
Dance
Theatre Group
Disability
Music

description: The Alquimistes Association is a non-profit organization that works for the development of people with intellectual disabilities. Alquimistes Teatro was created in 1998 in Barcelona during a collaboration between Albandis, an association of individuals with mental disabilities, and the theatre company Carro de Baco. The group, composed of individuals with disabilities as well as their parents, has worked in various scenic dimensions, ranging from classical theatre to corporal expression, dance, and musical comedy. They have also ventured into cinematography. The company also promotes and is actively involved in organizing the Fira Internacional de Teatre Integratiu (FITI) de Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona), a festival that is one of Spain’s most important events for inclusive theatre.
In 2011, a new stage of Alquimistes began under the direction of Verónica Ramírez and Francia Gajardo of the Els 4 Vents theatre company, with the challenge and conviction that the group and the theatrical show continue to be a benchmark in the theatrical and social panorama. The success of the premiere of Ni Bella ni Bèstia in that same year and Farandulers in 2013— which reached the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya— are examples of the professional aspirations of the female directors. They work in a personalized way with each member of the team of actors and actresses. For instance, the piece The Imaginary Patient by Molière, which premiered in the 9th FITI, was a new challenge for the members, as it was the first time they worked with the requirement of an established script.
In the following production, playwright and director Emili Corral joined the management team and created the work Donde manda el amor no manda capitán, a story inspired by Shakespeare and Federico García Lorca. It was presented in the framework of the tenth edition of FITI, which in 2017 transitioned from a Fair to a Festival.
After the premiere at FITI 2019 of the adaptation of Orson Welles' Rebellion on the Farm, in which they innovated in staging with audiovisual media and live music, the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the company had to close for almost two years. In the third quarter of 2021, actors, actresses, and directors reunited and created the documentary Alquimistes OFF to bear witness to everything they had lived through: the experiences of their members during the pandemic quarantine, a look back at the company’s history and processes. In the twelfth edition of the FITI Festival, Alquimistes Teatre will premiere a new piece, Lorca in Women.
Productions:
FITI. Fira Internacional de Teatre Integratiu (2015)
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
King Lear
Ni Bella ni Bestia (“Nor Beauty, nor Beast”)
2 + 2 = 5 (cinematography)
Chemical constituents Anti-proliferative activity of resin of C. sphaerocarpa against four human cancer cell lines
Creators: name: Dinku, Worku
name: Choi, Sang Un
name: Lee, Sang-Ho
name: Jung, Young-Sik
name: Dekebo, Aman
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2020

description: Myrrh, a resin derived from the Commiphora genus, has traditionally been used for treatment of various human diseases, such as amenorrhea, ache, tumors, fever, stomach pains. In view of this widespread of traditional medicinal use of the myrrh, the pharmacological activity chemical composition many Commiphra species are not well known. The current study pursues to evaluate the cytotoxicity activity of the n-hexane and chloroform fractions from the resin of C. sphaerocarpa obtained by liquid-liquid separation (solvent partitioning). Both the antiproliferative effect chemical compositions were correlated. The identity relative contents of individual constituents of the fractions were analyzed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry GC-MS. The in vitro cytotoxicity activity of crude extract related solvent fractions of the resin was evaluated in cellular lines of non-small cell lung cancer A549, ovarian cancer A2780, pancreatic cancer MIA-PaCa-2 stomach cancer SNU-638 by SRB assay. The n-hexane fraction showed better apparent cytotoxicity on A549, A2780 SNU-638 cancer cell lines with IC50 value ranging from 9.62 μg/ml to 10.30 μg/ml with dose-dependent relationship in vitro compared to the chloroform fraction. This efficacy might be correlated with the presence of pentacyclic triterpenes such as lupeol, Urs-12-en-3-one, a-amyrin, b-amyrin sesquiterpenes: a-copaene, caryophyllene, humulene, Alloaromadendrene, g-muurolene, g- selinene, b-humulene caryophyllene oxides in resin of the plant. Our findings indicated components of n-hexane fraction of C. sphaerocarpa might be useful to treat aforementioned selected cancers after further studies.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 7 No 2 (2020): EJSSD
Thermodynamics and dynamics of the formation of spherical lipidic vesicles
Creators: name: Zapata, E. Hernandez
name: Balbuena, L. Martinez
name: Santamaria-Holek, I
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a free energy expression accounting for the formation of spherical vesicles from planar lipidic membranes and derive a Fokker-Planck equation for the probability distribution describing the dynamics of vesicle formation. We found that formation may occur as an activated process for small membranes and as a transport process for sufficiently large membranes. We give explicit expressions for the transition rates and the characteristic time of vesicle formation in terms of the relevant physical parameters.
description: 14pgs, 6 figures, sendo to Jour. Phys. Biol
Depression among women of reproductive age in rural Bangladesh is linked to food security, diets and nutrition
Creators: name: Sparling, Thalia M.
name: Waid, Jillian L.
name: Wendt, Amanda S.
name: Gabrysch, Sabine
Publisher: name: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge Univ. Press
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Depression
subject: Dietary diversity
subject: Food
subject: Maternal health
subject: Nutrition
subject: Peripartum depression
subject: 610

description: Objective: To quantify the relationship between screening positive for depression and several indicators of the food and nutrition environment in Bangladesh.Design: We used cross-sectional data from the Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM) trial in Bangladesh to examine the association of depression in non-peripartum (NPW) and peripartum women (PW) with food and nutrition security using multivariable logistic regression and dominance analysis.Setting: Rural north-eastern Bangladesh.Participants: Women of reproductive age.Results: Of 2599 women, 40 % were pregnant or up to 1 year postpartum, while 60 % were not peripartum. Overall, 20 % of women screened positive for major depression. In the dominance analysis, indicators of food and nutrition security were among the strongest explanatory factors of depression. Food insecurity (HFIAS) and poor household food consumption (FCS) were associated with more than double the odds of depression (HFIAS: NPW OR = 2·74 and PW OR = 3·22; FCS: NPW OR = 2·38 and PW OR = 2·44). Low dietary diversity (<5 food groups) was associated with approximately double the odds of depression in NPW (OR = 1·80) and PW (OR = 1·99). Consumption of dairy, eggs, fish, vitamin A-rich and vitamin C-rich foods was associated with reduced odds of depression. Anaemia was not associated with depression. Low BMI (<18·5 kg/m2) was also associated with depression (NPW: OR = 1·40).Conclusions: Depression among women in Bangladesh was associated with many aspects of food and nutrition security, also after controlling for socio-economic factors. Further investigation into the direction of causality and interventions to improve diets and reduce depression among women in low-and middle-income countries are urgently needed. © © The Authors 2020.
Fundación Psico Ballet Maite León
Creators: name: León, Gabriela Martín
Publisher: name: DARIAH-DE
Year: 2023
Subjects: Disability
Theatre Group
Dance

description: Founded in 1986, the Maite León Psico Ballet Foundation is a private non-profit organization centred on extensive training in the field of performing arts, featuring people with physical, psychological, intellectual, developmental, or sensory diversity. The company has, therefore, developed its very own method, referred to as the “Maite León Psico Ballet method,” involving dance, theatre, music, percussion, singing, and facial and body makeup classes with the aim of training actor-dancers in a diverse fashion. In order to achieve this goal, the company includes new educational strategies, promoting a positive perception of self, self-motivation, creativity, initiative, perseverance, responsibility, autonomy, teamwork, and respect for diversity among their actors. Throughout the years, Psico Ballet has won many national and international awards.
The foundation was brought to life by Maite León (a dancer and choreographer), the mother of a daughter with intellectual disability. During her time at the company, more than 600 students with disabilities and over 2,000 professionals in the field of special education as well as performing arts have been trained, and their shows have been performed in Europe, the United States, and Canada for over a million spectators.
Currently, the foundation involves four companies with different formats: Fritsch Company (a professional inclusive contemporary dance company producing shows aimed at adults), the Psico Ballet company (offering family shows), the Company School (producing shows such as “HorAs”), and the Contemporaries Company (involving over 60 dancers, staging a theatre show called “Under the Carpet”).
The Psico Ballet company actually predates the foundation itself: it was created in 1980 from the need to show the beauty and capacity of people with disabilities. In the beginning, their shows were strongly demanding, depicting realities such as the hiding of people with disabilities or the environmental situation, later turning to more visual and educational shows, aimed at children and youth. The company consists of 40 dancers, both disabled and not, therefore being inclusive and fostering relationships between intergenerational people with and without disabilities.
The foundation’s team organizing the management, teaching, and artistic productions consists of qualified professionals from the fields of social theatre and community work, involving experts in medicine, psychology, sociology, and stage directors, as well as choreographers, stage designers, and many more. This team coordinates and develops the shows, training, and rehearsals.
Productions:
Jet Lag (2014)
Un Mar de sueños (2009)
Para los que Sueñan (1996)
Entropía (1992)
Queíios (1986)
La Contaminación (1982)
title: Evaluation of Sprinkler Systems in Northern Utah
Creators: name: Gavel, Murray J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1955

description: Sprinkling as a method of irrigation has been expanding rapidly in the United States, with acreages irrigated by this method increasing every year. One of the major reasons for the expansion is the great improvements that have been made in sprinkler irrigation equipment. Lightweight aluminum pipe, with quick couplers, improved pump and motor efficiencies have all made sprinkler irrigation more desirable. High efficiency of water application, labor requirements, and favorable plant response have also favored the expansion.
Curvature-induced anisotropic spin-orbit splitting in carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Chico, L.
name: Lopez-Sancho, M. P.
name: Munoz, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have theoretically explored the spin-orbit interaction in carbon nanotubes. We have found that, besides the dependence on chirality and diameter, the effects of spin-orbit coupling are anisotropic: spin splitting is larger for the higher valence or the lower electron band depending on the specific tube. Different tube behaviors can be grouped in three families, according to the so called chiral index. Curvature-induced changes in the orbital hybridization have a crucial role, and they are shown to be family-dependent. Our results explain recent experiments without invoking external fields.
Phycoremediation of synthetic dyes in an aqueous solution using an indigenous Oscillatoria sp., from Ethiopia
Creators: name: Gelebo, Galle Gezahegn
name: Tessema, Lidiya Hailu
name: Kehshin, Kalkidan Tadesse
name: Gebremariam, Hable Haileselassie
name: Gebremikal, Eyerus Tigabu
name: Motuma, Melkame Tamiru
name: Ayele, Abate
name: Getachew, Deribe
name: Benor, Solomon
name: Suresh, Arumuganainar
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2020

description: Synthetic dyes usages are inevitable, but they are recalcitrant and toxic, hence need treatment before discharge. Lately, phycoremediation of dyes gained more attention due to its value-added benefits, however, it need more investigation of indigenous species for ease. Therefore, the aim of the study was to isolate indigenous microalgae from Elias Tesfaye textile factory runoff, Addis Ababa. The sample was inoculated to Bold’s Basal Medium and incubated for 15 days and the dominant colonies were purified and identified using a microscope. The identified isolate, Oscillatoria sp., which belongs to prokaryotic filamentous cyanobacteria was checked for the dye removal efficiency and biomass production using synthetic dyes of malachite green (MG), methylene blue (MB) and Safranin (SF). The axenic cultures of Oscillatoria sp., was inoculated (0.2 g/L) with various concentrations of dyes (1-5 mg/L) and incubated under Sunlight for 5 days and analyzed the residual color absorbance and biomass production. A maximum of 93% dye color was removed in MG, followed by MB (66%) and SF (52%). Interestingly, the biomass was increased 3.75 times in MB dye (0.75 g/L), while 3.1 and 1.9 times in MG (0.63 g/L) and SF (0.38 g/L), respectively. It seems that the Oscillatoria sp., was decolorizing the dyes by utilizing as nutrients and shown unique potentials on different dyes. Yet, more studies are needed for the exact mechanism of removal and large scale application. This Ethiopian native species of microalgae can be used effectively for the phycoremediation of synthetic dyes locally.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 7 No 2 (2020): EJSSD
Multiflavor and multiband observations of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae
Creators: name: Taboada, Ignacio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been proposed that the gamma ray burst - supernova connection may manifest itself in a significant fraction of core collapse supernovae possessing mildly relativistic jets that do not break out of the stellar envelope. Neutrinos would provide proof of the existence of these jets. In the present letter we calculate the event rate of ~100 GeV neutrino-induced cascades in km^3 detectors. We also calculate the event rate for ~10 GeV neutrinos of all flavors with the DeepCore low energy extension of IceCube. The added event rate significantly improves the ability of km^3 detectors to search for these gamma-ray dark bursts. For a core collapse supernova at 10 Mpc we find ~4 events expected in DeepCore and ~6 neutrino-induced cascades in IceCube/KM3Net. Observations at ~10 GeV are mostly sensitive to the pion component of the neutrino production in the choked jet, while the ~100 GeV depends on the kaon component. Finally we discuss extensions of the on-going optical follow-up programs by IceCube and Antares to include neutrinos of all flavors at ~10 GeV and neutrino-induced cascades at ~100 GeV energies.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Modification of Newton's law of gravity at very large distances
Creators: name: Kirillov, A.A.
name: Turaev, D.
Publisher: name: Amsterdam : Elsevier
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: article
subject: cosmos
subject: elementary particle
subject: gravity
subject: luminance
subject: mathematical analysis
subject: molecular dynamics
subject: molecular interaction
subject: theory
subject: 530

description: We discuss a Modified Field Theory (MOFT) in which the number of fields can vary. It is shown that when the number of fields is conserved MOFT reduces to the standard field theory but interaction constants undergo an additional renormalization and acquire a dependence on spatial scales. In particular, the renormalization of the gravitational constant leads to the deviation of the law of gravity from the Newton's law in some range of scales rmin < r < rmax, in which the gravitational potential shows essentially logarithmic ∼ ln r (instead of 1/r) behavior. In this range, the renormalized value of the gravitational constant G increases and at scales r > rmax acquires a new constant value G′ ∼ Grmax/rmin. From the dynamical standpoint this looks as if every point source is surrounded with a halo of dark matter. It is also shown that if the maximal scale rmax is absent, the homogeneity of the dark matter in the Universe is consistent with a fractal distribution of baryons in space, in which the luminous matter is located on thin two-dimensional surfaces separated by empty regions of ever growing size.
Analog of Electroweak Model for Contracted Gauge Group
Creators: name: Gromov, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The limiting case of the bosonic part of the standard Electroweak Model, which correspond to the contracted gauge group $ SU(2;j)\times U(1)$ is discussed. The Higgs boson, Z-boson and electromagnetic fields become an external ones with respect to the W-bosons fields. The W-bosons fields do not effect on these external fields. The masses of the all particles of the Electroweak Model remain the same under contraction.
description: 9 pages, no figures
Molecular docking analysis of antibacterial indole alkaloids from roots of Brucea antidysentrica
Creators: name: Alemu, Tewabech
name: Shenkute, Kebede
name: Eswaramoorthy, Rajalakshanan
name: Girmay, Solomon
name: Melaku, Yadessa
name: Endale, Dr. Milkyas
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2020

description: Brucea antidysentrica is one of the medicinal plants used traditionally to treat various diseases such as leprosy, wound, diarrhea, fever, eye disease, rabies and tumor/cancer. Phytochemical screening test of dichloromethane/methanol (1:1) and methanol extracts revealed the presence of alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids, steroids and saponins, terpenoids, and phytosterols. Silica gel column chromatographic separation of dichloromethane/methanol (1:1) and acid-base extracts afforded compound 1, canthin-6-one (2) and 1,11-dimethoxycanthin-6-one (3). The crude extracts and isolated compounds were screened for in vitro antibacterial activity against strains of Salmonella thphimurium, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus. Canthin-6-one (2) and 1,11-dimethoxycanthin-6-one (3) exhibited promising antibacterial activity against E. coli and S. thphimurium (12.6±0.6 and 12.5±0.87 mm zone of inhibition, respectively) compared to ciprofloxacin (27.3±2.52 and 29±1.00 mm, respectively), at 0.5 mg/mL. The radical scavenging activity of dichloromethane/methanol (1:1) and acid-base extract were 83.3 % and 80 %, respectively, whereas alkaloids 1-3 displayed activity of 85.3 %, 87.5 % and 78.4 % at 100 µg/mL, respectively, suggesting that canthin-6-one (2) displayed promising radical scavenging activity. The molecular docking analysis showed compound 1 and 1,11-dimethoxycanthin-6-one (3) were found to show hydrogen bond interaction with active site amino acid residue PHE196 and ALA 51 at a distance of 1.5 Ao and 1.5 Ao, respectively. Hydrophobic interactions were observed between 2 and 3 with VAL201, LYS57, GLY200, ASN198, ALA51, LEU52 and ASN198, LEU52, VAL201, LYS57, respectively, suggesting the compounds may act as potential inhibitors of DNA gyrase enzyme.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 7 No 2 (2020): EJSSD
title: Factors that Contribute to Success of Selected Farm Ownership Borrowers in Utah
Creators: name: Jensen, Grey M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1954

description: Farming is a complex business. Financial success in farming is influenced by the organization and operation of the farm unit. The principal problem confronting farmers is knowing how to manage the resources to attain maximum income over a period of time. Combinations of resources involve problems relative to crops, livestock, machinery, labor, capital, credit, and many others. An attempt has been made in this study to measure the results of different combinations and operation of resources and to determine their association with financial success of the farm.
Combination of Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Improves Tef (Eragrostis tef) Yield and Yield Components and Soil Properties on Nitisols in the, Central Highlands of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tulu, Girma Chala
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2020

description: A field experiment was made to evaluate combination of organic and inorganic fertilizers on yield and yield components of tef and soil properties. The study was conducted for three consecutive cropping seasons (2015-2017) on farmers’ fields in Welmera district of Oromiya Regional State. The objective of this study was to evaluate the response of organic and inorganic nutrient source on growth and yield of tef under balanced fertilizers. The treatments included eleven selected combinations of organic and inorganic nutrient sources (Farm yard manure, Compost, Nitrogen and Phosphorus). The design was randomized complete block with three replications. Results revealed that tef yield and yield components were significantly affected by the application of organic and inorganic fertilizer sources. The highest tef grain yield (2042.6 kgha-1) was obtained from the applications of 25% compost with 75% recommended nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer. While, highest biomass yield (8535.4 kgha-1) was obtained from the applications of full doses of recommended N and phosphorus fertilizers. Application of the different organic fertilizers improves the organic matter, Total N, available P and pH of the soil in the study area. The result also showed that the highest marginal rate of return was obtained from application of 50% FYM (farm yard manure) + 50% recommended nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer, which is economically the most feasible alternative for tef production on nitisols of central Ethiopian highlands. Therefore, based on the MMR application of 50% FYM (farm yard manure) + 50% recommended nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer can be recommended for tef production for the study areas.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 7 No 1 (2020): EJSSD
title: Growth and Nutrition of Plants as Affected by Various Levels of Exchangeable Sodium
Creators: name: Choudhri, Mohammad B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1954

description: In saline soils, which are characterized by an appreciable quantity of neutral soluble salts, plant growth is adversely affected due to the increase in osmotic pressure and the consequent decrease in the physiological availability of water. In addition, growth may also be restricted through the accumulation of toxic quantities of various ions within the plant.
Low-energy theory and RKKY interaction for interacting quantum wires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Schulz, Andreas
name: De Martino, Alessandro
name: Ingenhoven, Philip
name: Egger, Reinhold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the effective low-energy theory for interacting 1D quantum wires subject to Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Under a one-loop renormalization group scheme including all allowed interaction processes for not too weak Rashba coupling, we show that electron-electron backscattering is an irrelevant perturbation. Therefore no gap arises and electronic transport is described by a modified Luttinger liquid theory. As an application of the theory, we discuss the RKKY interaction between two magnetic impurities. Interactions are shown to induce a slower power-law decay of the RKKY range function than the usual 1D noninteracting $\cos(2k_F x)/|x|$ law. Moreover, in the noninteracting Rashba wire, the spin-orbit coupling causes a twisted (anisotropic) range function with several different spatial oscillation periods. In the interacting case, we show that one special oscillation period leads to the slowest decay, and therefore dominates the RKKY interaction for large separation.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor changes, published version
Households’ Willingness to Pay for Livestock Insurance in Karrayyu Pastoralist Community: An Attempt for Risk Reduction.
Creators: name: Kebede, Jeleta Gezahegne
name: Entele, Birku Reta
name: Derege, Alemayehu Ethiopia
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2020

description: The study aim to investigate pastoralist community’s willingness to pay (WTP) and factors that determine their willingness to pay for index based livestock insurance scheme. Using survey data collected by systematic sampling method, the study adopted an interval data logit model and estimated households’ WTP for index based livestock insurance for camels, cattle and goats & sheep’s separately. The study finding reveals that there is huge demand for livestock insurance scheme following recurrent drought and increased chance of losing their livestock. The estimated result shows that total WTP for camel, cattle and goat and sheep is about 2.7, 4.27, and 4.4 million birr per year respectively. Age of household head, family size, number of camel size and value of household asset have significant positive effect; where as non-farm income and distance from local market have negative effect on households’ probability of joining Camel insurance. The cattle model shows that value of household assets have negative effect and size of the cattle has positive effect on the probability of households’ willingness to join cattle insurance and their WTP. The goat and sheep model shows that number of goat and sheep has positive effect; income from livestock and age of household head has negative effect on households’ probability of joining livestock insurance and WTP. In all models, the starting bid price has negative significant effect on the demand for livestock insurance, confirming the law of demand. Policy suggestion is that public or private insurance company can intervene through supply of livestock insurance for commercial purposes as well as to mitigate the side effect of covariate shocks leading to smooth consumption and stable income stream of households. Preferential policy intervention for camel insurance may yield better outcome as the community gives more value to the camel.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 7 No 1 (2020): EJSSD
In safe hands : a history of aged care in Tasmania
Creators: name: Crisp, EP
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Aged care is one of the more controversial and problematic areas of healthcare in Australia in the 21st century. Whilst most people today accept that residential care is an essential service for those who can no longer cope on their own in the community, few people want to end up in a nursing home, and few nurses aspire to work there. But was this always the case? This diachronic study integrates archival research and oral history interviews to explore the history of aged care in one state of Australia, Tasmania. Tasmania began its white history as Van Diemen's Land, a penal settlement on a remote island intended to be the 'gaol for the entire British Empire'. The high number of convicts transported to the colony and the resulting large emancipist population, many of whom were both impoverished and without family to help them as they aged, meant that the colonial administration was forced to make official arrangements for their care from almost the first days of the state's existence. These arrangements bore some similarities to those in other Australian states and in the mother country, but the peculiarities of life on the edge of civilization brought their own unique solutions in that century, and the next. This thesis follows the development of Tasmanian aged care from the early colonial charitable institutions, to the early 20th century period of 'making do', to the ennursement of aged care in the middle of that century, and finally to developments in the 1980s that led to today's highly regulated and businesslike aged care sector. It illuminates the changes and continuities in conditions and practices within homes for the aged, and the shifting attitudes of Tasmanian society towards the elderly and those that cared for them. Official records paint an almost uniformly positive picture of aged care. In contrast, public opinion is almost equally negative. This study provides a more balanced story, in the hope that an understanding of the successes and failures of the past will provide some guidance for the future to assist our aging population in the 21st century.
Weak Chaos and the "Melting Transition" in a Confined Microplasma System
Creators: name: Antonopoulos, Chris
name: Basios, Vasileios
name: Bountis, Tassos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results demonstrating the occurrence of changes in the collective dynamics of a Hamiltonian system which describes a confined microplasma characterized by long--range Coulomb interactions. In its lower energy regime, we first detect macroscopically, the transition from a "crystalline--like" to a "liquid--like" behavior, which we call the "melting transition". We then proceed to study this transition using a microscopic chaos indicator called the \emph{Smaller Alignment Index} (SALI), which utilizes two deviation vectors in the tangent dynamics of the flow and is nearly constant for ordered (quasi--periodic) orbits, while it decays exponentially to zero for chaotic orbits as $\exp(-(λ_{1}-λ_{2})t)$, where $λ_{1}>λ_{2}>0$ are the two largest Lyapunov exponents. During the "melting phase", SALI exhibits a peculiar, stair--like decay to zero, reminiscent of "sticky" orbits of Hamiltonian systems near the boundaries of resonance islands. This alerts us to the importance of the $Δλ=λ_{1}-λ_{2}$ variations in that regime and helps us identify the energy range over which "melting" occurs as a multi--stage diffusion process through weakly chaotic layers in the phase space of the microplasma. Additional evidence supporting further the above findings is given by examining the $GALI_{k}$ indices, which generalize SALI (=$GALI_{2}$) to the case of $k>2$ deviation vectors and depend on the complete spectrum of Lyapunov exponents of the tangent flow about the reference orbit.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, submitted at PRE
Quantum Hall Phase Diagram of Half-filled Bilayers in the Lowest and the Second Orbital Landau Levels: Abelian versus Non-Abelian Incompressible Fractional Quantum Hall States
Creators: name: Peterson, Michael R.
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the quantum phase diagram of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in the lowest two Landau levels in half-filled bilayer structures as a function of tunneling strength and layer separation, i.e., we revisit the lowest Landau level filling factor 1/2 bilayer problem and make new predictions involving bilayers in the half-filled second Landau level (i.e., filling factor 5/2). Using numerical exact diagonalization we investigate the important question of whether this system supports a FQHE described by the non-Abelian Moore-Read Pfaffian state in the strong tunneling regime. In the lowest Landau level, we find that although in principle, increasing (decreasing) tunneling strength (layer separation) could lead to a transition from the Abelian two-component Halperin 331 to non-Abelian one-component Moore-Read Pfaffian state, the FQHE excitation gap is relatively small in the lowest Landau level Pfaffian regime--we establish that all so far observed FQHE states in half-filled lowest Landau level bilayers are most likely described by the Abelian Halperin 331 state. In the second Landau level we make the prediction that bilayer structures would manifest two distinct branches of incompressible FQHE corresponding to the Abelian 331 state (at moderate to low tunneling and large layer separation) and the non-Abelian Moore-Read Pfaffian state (at large tunneling and small layer separation). The observation of these two FQHE branches and the possible quantum phase transition between them will be compelling evidence supporting the existence of the non-Abelian Moore-Read Pfaffian state in the second Landau level. We discuss our results in the context of existing experiments and theoretical works.
description: 23 pages, 18 figures. Updated version has fixed typos and updated and added reference.
Gott
Creators: name: HORA
Publisher: name: DARIAH-DE
Year: 2023
Subjects: Improvisation
Provocation
Autocracy
Satire
Nudity
Experimental Theatre

description: Abstract:
"God" constitutes the fourth installment of the extensive "Free Republic HORA" project. Described as a composition concerning God, this piece embodies the essence of radical experimentalism within HORA. The work adopts a collage-like structure, resulting from meticulous experimental efforts. It unfolds through various performance segments, each helmed by a different team of directors, thereby questioning notions of autocracy. During its creation, individuals with cognitive disabilities from HORA actively participated in shaping the artistic direction, collectively crafting a unique world within the performance.
Information-theoretic resolution of perceptual WSS watermarking of non i.i.d. Gaussian signals
Creators: name: Pateux, Stéphane
name: Guelvouit, Gaëtan Le
name: Guillemot, Christine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The theoretical foundations of data hiding have been revealed by formulating the problem as message communication over a noisy channel. We revisit the problem in light of a more general characterization of the watermark channel and of weighted distortion measures. Considering spread spectrum based information hiding, we release the usual assumption of an i.i.d. cover signal. The game-theoretic resolution of the problem reveals a generalized characterization of optimum attacks. The paper then derives closed-form expressions for the different parameters exhibiting a practical embedding and extraction technique.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Project Close-Out Checklist for Research Data
Creators: name: Briney, Kristin A.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2020
Subjects: Data Management

description: The close-out checklist describes a range of activities for helping ensure that research data are properly managed at the end of a project or at researcher departure. Activities include: making stewardship decisions, preparing files for archiving, sharing data, and setting aside important files in a "FINAL" folder. Two versions of the checklist are available: a Caltech Library branded version and a generic editable version.
2,6-Bis[(S)-4-benzyl-4,5-dihydro-1,3-oxazol-2-yl]pyridine
Creators: name: Möller, K.
name: Junge, K.
name: Spannenberg, A.
name: Beller, M.
Publisher: name: Chester : International Union of Crystallography
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: chemistry
subject: crystal structures
subject: 540

description: The commercially available title compound, C25H 23N3O2, has been known since 1993 [Nesper et al. (1993). Helv. Chim. Acta, 76, 2239-2249], but has not been structurally characterized until now. In the free ligand, the N atoms of both oxazoline rings point in opposite directions. The phenyl rings make dihedral angles of 30.56 (5) and 84.57 (3)° with the pyridine ring and 72.85 (3)° with each other.
The Science Case for PILOT III: the Nearby Universe
Creators: name: Lawrence, J. S.
name: Ashley, M. C. B.
name: Bailey, J.
name: Navascues, D. Barrado y
name: Bedding, T.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Bond, I.
name: Bruntt, H.
name: Burton, M. G.
name: Cioni, M. -R.
name: Eiroa, C.
name: Epchtein, N.
name: Kiss, L.
name: Lagage, P. O.
name: Minier, V.
name: Mora, A.
name: Olsen, K.
name: Peri, P.
name: Saunders, W.
name: Stello, D.
name: Storey, J. W. V.
name: Tinney, C.
name: Yock, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope is a proposed 2.5 m optical/infrared telescope to be located at DomeC on the Antarctic plateau. The atmospheric conditions at Dome C deliver a high sensitivity, high photometric precision, wide-field, high spatial resolution, and high-cadence imaging capability to the PILOT telescope. These capabilities enable a unique scientific potential for PILOT, which is addressed in this series of papers. The current paper presents a series of projects dealing with the nearby Universe that have been identified as key science drivers for the PILOT facility. Several projects are proposed that examine stellar populations in nearby galaxies and stellar clusters in order to gain insight into the formation and evolution processes of galaxies and stars. A series of projects will investigate the molecular phase of the Galaxy and explore the ecology of star formation, and investigate the formation processes of stellar and planetary systems. Three projects in the field of exoplanet science are proposed: a search for free-floating low-mass planets and dwarfs, a program of follow-up observations of gravitational microlensing events, and a study of infrared light-curves for previously discovered exoplanets. Three projects are also proposed in the field of planetary and space science: optical and near-infrared studies aimed at characterising planetary atmospheres, a study of coronal mass ejections from the Sun, and a monitoring program searching for small-scale Low Earth Orbit satellite debris items.
description: 27 pages, 16 figures (degraded quality), accepted for publication in PASA
Penning-trap eigenfrequency measurements with optical radiofrequency detectors
Creators: name: Berrocal, Joaquín
name: Hernández, Alejandro
name: Arrazola, Íñigo
name: Domínguez, Francisco
name: Carrasco-Sanz, Ana
name: Fernández, Francisco Javier
name: Block, Michael
name: Rodríguez, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use an electric-dipole laser-driven transition to precisely measure the cyclotron-frequency ratios of the pairs $^{42}$Ca$^+$-$^{40}$Ca$^+$, $^{44}$Ca$^+$-$^{40}$Ca$^+$ and $^{48}$Ca$^+$-$^{40}$Ca$^+$ in a 7-tesla Penning trap. A single laser-cooled ($T\approx 1$~mK) ion serves, together with photon-counting and/or photon-imaging units, as a radiofrequency detector covering a broad-band frequency spectrum, in the present case from kHz to a few MHz. Such detectors ($^{40,42,44,48}$Ca$^{\scriptsize{+}}$) allow measuring extremely small forces, with measured normalized sensitivities down to $7.4(3.5)$ yN$/\sqrt{\text{Hz}}$ and $24.9(9.9)$ yN$/\sqrt{\text{Hz}}$ in the MHz and kHz regime, respectively. The direct determination of the ions' amplitudes makes a cyclotron-frequency measurement process more robust against inhomogeneities of the magnetic field and/or deviations of the electric quadrupole field due to mechanical imperfections of the trap.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Determination of Residue Levels of DDT and Its Metabolites in Khat and Cabbage Samples using QuEChERS Sample Preparation Method Combined with GC-MS Detection
Creators: name: Regassa, Chala
name: Tolcha, Teshome
name: Gomoro, Kefyalew
name: Megersa, Negussie
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2020

description: A simple and selective quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe (QuEChERS) extraction technique coupled with gas chromatography mass spectrometric detection (GC-MS) was developed and validated for simultaneous determination of 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-di(4-chlorophenyl)ethane (p,p'-DDT) and its main metabolite 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(4-chlorophenyl) ethylene(p,p'-DDE) and 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(4-chlorophenyl) ethane (p,p'-DDD) in cabbage and Khat samples. The linearity of the analytical response was acceptable with correlation coefficients of 0.992 or better. The precision associated with the analytical method, expressed as %RSD were lower than 8.6 and 9.1% for the intraday and interday precision, respectively.The limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) of the proposed method for cabbage sample were in the range of 0.023–0.04 mg/kg and 0.09–0.14 mg/kg respectively. The LOD and LOQ of the proposed method for Khat sample were in the range of 0.02–0.06 mg/kg and 0.07–0.19 mg/kg respectively. The LOD and LOQ of the method were below the maximum residue level set by European Commission for the pesticides in both samples. The recoveries of the method were ranging from 97.16 to 107.99 for cabbage and 72.1 to 90.55 for Khat sample. The analytical applications of this method indicates the presence of p,p'-DDE, p,p'-DDD and p,p'-DDT in both cabbage and Khat samples.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 7 No 1 (2020): EJSSD
title: A Political Study of Federal Aid to Education at Utah State University
Creators: name: Merrell, Richard Yates
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1960

description: In the present-day world of change, every time we pick up the paper we read of something new in our society. We now have new rockets, new satellites, new computers, and new methods or destruction. There are also many "new" things in the field of education. One of these is federal aid to education. As yet, there seems to be no consensus on the merits or this supposedly new approach to educational finance. Some view it as a kind or plague; others see it as an unmixed blessing. Actually, federal aid to education is quite old and quite common.
Monte Carlo event generator validation and tuning for the LHC
Creators: name: Buckley, Andy
name: Hoeth, Hendrik
name: Schulz, Holger
name: von Seggern, Jan Eike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarise the motivation for, and the status of, the tools developed by CEDAR/MCnet for validating and tuning Monte Carlo event generators for the LHC against data from previous colliders. We then present selected preliminary results from studies of event shapes and hadronisation observables from e+e- colliders, and of minimum bias and underlying event observables from the Tevatron, and comment on the approach needed with early LHC data to best exploit the potential for new physics discoveries at the LHC in the next few years.
description: Prepared for Proceedings of XII Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, November 3-7 2008, Erice, Italy
The genomics of transplant-related outcomes and familial renal disease
Creators: name: Stapleton, Caragh
Publisher: name: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing global health concern with an age-standardized global prevalence of approximately 10%. Of those with CKD, approximately 2% will go on to require renal replacement therapy within any given 5-year period. Renal transplantation is accepted as the most clinically- and cost-effective treatment for end-stage kidney failure. In this thesis, we set out to examine the impact of common genetic variation on renal transplant function as well as a common post-transplant complication: non-melanoma skin cancer. We also aimed to examine a common form of CKD, IgA nephropathy, in a familial context using next generation sequencing techniques. We demonstrated that polygenic (but not single variant) effects of common genetic variation found in both the kidney donor and recipient impacts the function of the renal allograft in the early stages post-transplant. We also illustrated how measures of post-transplant renal outcomes do not correlate with the level of shared genetic ancestry between unrelated kidney donors and recipients in a cohort of European, deceased-donor transplants. We also showed that polygenic (but not single variant) effects of common genetic variation impacts both whether or not an individual develops post-transplant non-melanoma skin cancer but also, the speed at which they develop non-melanoma skin cancer. Finally, in our exome sequencing analysis of familial IgAN, we found that a number of Irish families carried rare, damaging and potentially disease-causing mutations in type IV collagen-related genes, known to cause kidney disease. In summary, this thesis demonstrates the impact of genetic variation on both kidney disease and transplant outcomes.
A light scalar from walking solutions in gauge-string duality
Creators: name: Elander, Daniel
name: Nunez, Carlos
name: Piai, Maurizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the type-IIB background generated by the strong-coupling limit of Nc D5 branes wrapped on S2, and focus our attention on a special class of solutions that exhibit walking behavior. We compute numerically the spectrum of scalar fluctuations around vacua of this class. Besides two cuts, and sequences of single poles converging on one of the branch points, the spectrum contains one isolated scalar, the mass of which is suppressed by the length of the walking region. Approximate scale-invariance symmetry in the walking region suggests that this be interpreted as a light dilaton, the pseudo-Goldstone boson of dilatations.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. Superpotential formalism replaced with effective potential. Main results unchanged
title: A Farm Organization and Management Study in Western Millard County, Utah
Creators: name: Blanch, George Thomas
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1931

description: Due to the cumulative effect of certain economic factors, the farmers of western Millard County, known as the Delta area, are in unfavorable economic conditions. Many of the farms are heavily mortgaged, taxes and interest in many cases are in arrears for several years, and in general, lack of prosperity in quite evident. The majority of the farm land in this area is within one of four drainage districts. These districts are known as drainage districts No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4. The cost and maintenance of these drainage systems is generally thought to be one of the contributing causes of the unfavorable financial situation in this area.