cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Gospel of Mark in the context of ancient biography
Creators: name: Rouvinez, Francis Aldo
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: This thesis argues that the Gospel of Mark reflects the assumptions, purposes, and conventions of ancient Jewish biographical writing rather than those of Greco-Roman biography. It offers a sustained critique of the view that the gospels are Greco-Roman biographies and argues that it is based on an exaggeration of the flexibility of the genre, insufficient attention to its most fundamental and distinctive characteristics, and an inadequate evaluation of the significance of resemblances and differences. It also seeks to remedy the hereto lack of adequate assessment of and comparison to the manner in which life and career stories are told in ancient Jewish literary traditions. Chapter 1 offers a review of the conditions that have proved favourable to the emergence and endurance of the current consensus. Chapter 2 proposes a fresh analysis of Greco-Roman biography between 200 BCE and 100 CE. It gives close attention to the modes of representation of the genre, as well as its philosophical and cultural underpinnings, with relevant substantiation from the works of the main authors of the period. Chapters 3 and 4 bring to light the strong Jewish biographical tradition that exists both in the Jewish Scriptures and Second Temple literature. A typology of these biographies is proposed which delineates their conventions, topoi, and lines of development. An analysis of later Jewish adaptations to the cultural expectations of Greco-Roman audiences and the conventions of Greco-Roman biography is also included. Chapter 5 demonstrates that the ethos, narration, and style of Mark conform to those of Jewish biography. Finally, chapters 6, 7, and 8 evaluate leading interpretations of Mark’s introduction, main narrative, and Passion Narrative through the lens of Greco-Roman biography. Each of these chapters then demonstrates Mark’s use of modes of representation and categories of content typical of Jewish biography to present Jesus as the fusion of biblical prototypical figures and the embodiment of messianically-interpreted texts from the Jewish Scriptures.
Conceptual modules: expressing desired structure for software reengineering
Creators: name: Baniassad, Elisa L.A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Many tools have been built to analyze the source code of software systems. Most of these tools do not adequately support software reengineering activities because they do not allow a software engineer to analyze both existing and desired software structures. This thesis describes the conceptual modules approach and supporting tool that aids the engineer in the investigation and analysis of desired structure with relation to the existing structure of source code. This approach allows a selected subset of lines of source to be treated as a logical unit. This subset is referred to as a conceptual module. The lines of code that comprise a conceptual module need not be contiguous, nor must they be related in any way in the source. Using variable dependence and control transfer information extracted from the source, the tool analyzes the conceptual module's constituent lines of code to determine its interface. Additionally, the data- or control-flow between two or more conceptual modules can be examined as a means of eliciting the relationships between the modules and between conceptual modules and the source. To allow the necessary flexibility in analysis, the functionality of the tool can be tailored through a programmatic query language component. The usefulness of the tool has been investigated in two different ways. First, the tool was applied to several different reengineering scenarios: restructuring from procedural to object-oriented program design, re-modularizing code in an existing program with little structure, and extracting a portion of source for reuse. For each scenario, several existing program understanding tools were also applied to provide a basis of comparison between existing approaches and the conceptual modules approach. Second, the tool was successfully applied to actual reengineering tasks by two different groups of users. One group eliminated unnecessary parts of a system's source to improve efficiency and to enable parallelization of a 47,000 line, 56-file software package. The other group performed analysis on a procedural program so as to better understand how to transform the existing source into an object-oriented version.
Theory of high-symmetry tetramer single molecule magnets
Creators: name: Klemm, Richard A.
name: Efremov, Dmitri V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
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 a microscopic theory of single molecule magnets. From our exact single-ion spin matrix elements for four arbitrary spins, we study the single-ion anisotropy of equal spins exhibiting $T_d$, $D_{2d}$, or $C_{4v}$ molecular group symmetry. Each group generates site-dependent single-ion anisotropy. For weak anisotropy, accurate Hartree expressions for the magnetization, specific heat, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) absorption, and inelastic neutron scattering cross-section are given. For $D_{2d}$, azimuthal single-ion anisotropy leads to the observed Ni$_4$ EPR splittings.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
The effect of different types of eye movements on optic flow information during walking
Creators: name: Szonya Durant
name: Holmes, Tim
name: Zanker, Johannes
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: Eye movements play multiple roles – small stabilizing movements are important for keeping the scene steady during locomotion, large movements search for relevant information. We investigated the effect of these movements on motion information available. Several observers navigated through an office and a woodland environment wearing a head mounted device that simultaneously recorded the scene ahead and tracked eye movements, allowing us to determine the gaze direction in each frame. There was a target present in the scene, which observers fixated or they walked naturally. Local motion direction and magnitude was calculated for the frame sequences using a simple motion correlation type model. By realigning the frames to keep eye fixation location fixed at the same point, we could mimic the input received by the retina and compare this to the input received by the camera. We used a method for calculating how informative optic flow data is for retrieving heading direction to evaluate the effect of eye movements on the available motion information as a function of time and whether the eyes were pointing in the direction of heading or scanning the scene.  We found eye movements mostly improved the motion information available, even when large saccades were made.
Innovation at the margins: Evaluating New Zealand educational social entrepreneurship ventures
Creators: name: Thomas, Steven
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: Social ventures have become a popular way of providing goods and services to those who are most in need. Among them, social entrepreneurship ventures (SEV) stand out as ones which innovate at this task. SEVs draw upon the talent of social entrepreneurs to identify or create opportunities to meet unmet needs by selling goods and services at low-cost or by earning revenue through a business process that supports a social mission. SEVs believe their innovations in goods and services will help to bring about more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just solutions than conventional firms, non-profits or the public sector. While much attention has been devoted to understanding the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship, less attention has been paid to whether, and to what extent, SEVs achieve their goals and improve outcomes and opportunities for those whom they serve. There is more hope than hard evidence about the impact, if any, that SEVs may have, especially over time. Using a longitudinal approach, this study evaluated a selection of sponsors of New Zealand's public-private Partnership Schools Kura Hourua (PSKH), as examples of educational SEVs, during the 2015-16 school year. A purpose was to evaluate whether sponsors' schools had an impact on their pupils' engagement at school and educational progress in maths and reading, compared to pupils at similar regular state schools. Another was to evaluate how innovative sponsors' schools were, and whether the innovations they used helped to improve outcomes and opportunities for pupils, and their families and communities. The results showed that PSKH pupils' engagement levels were as high, or higher, than the engagement levels of regular state school pupils. On average, sponsors' schools also had a positive statistically significant impact on pupils' educational progress of .9 standard deviations in maths and 1.4 standard deviations in reading. This change represented about a year to a year and a half's educational progress. However, the marginal changes in pupils' scores were often not statistically different to those of pupils at similar regular state schools. The educational or social innovations that sponsors used were neither fundamentally new nor different to what regular state schools or other organisations may provide. While sponsors' schools may not have always had an impact which was different to regular state schools, the value of their innovations was in how sponsors recombined them and made them available to pupils from some Maori, Pasifika and low socio-economic status communities who may not have been able to access them before. This finding suggests SEVs may create most value by recombining existing innovations to bring about positive changes at, and for, those at the margins.
Orphnebius hauseri EPPELSHEIM 1895
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Orphnebius
Orphnebius hauseri

description: Orphnebius hauseri EPPELSHEIM, 1895
Material examined: India Uttarakhand: 13, 5 km NW Ghangaria, "valley of flowers", "N30*43.356' E079*85.309'", 3420 m, [date not indicated, probably VI.2011], leg. Shavrin (cAss).
Comment: Confirmed records of O. hauseri were previously known only from Himachal Pradesh and Nepal (ASSING 2009). Previous records from China and Taiwan (PACE 2010, 2012) and even some from Nepal (PACE 1992) are undoubtedly based on misidentified material (see ASSING 2006a, the section on O. jumlaicus, and the description of O. formosanus).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, On the Orphnebius fauna of the East Palaearctic region. VI. Six new species from China and Taiwan, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini), pp. 101-125 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5413940
Orphnebius hastatus ASSING 2006
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Orphnebius
Orphnebius hastatus

description: Orphnebius hastatus ASSING, 2006
Material examined Nepal: 10 exs., SW-Dhaulagiri, Dhara Khola valley, 28°31'N, 83°18'E, 1900 m, 21.-22.V.2012, leg. Schmidt (NME, cAss); 1 ex., Gandaki prov., Manaslu, Bara Pokhari Lekh, Chhandi Khola, 2000-2300 m, 11.-12.IV.2003, leg. Schmidt (NME); 1 ex., Manaslu, S Bara Pokhari, 2300 m, 8.IV.2003, leg. Schmidt (NME); 1 ex., Manaslu, S Bara Pokhari, 28°15'N, 84°25'E, 2100 m, 29.IV.2005, leg. Schmidt (NME); 5 exs., Manaslu, Dudh Pokhari Lekh, below Helam Pokhari, 2000 m, 22.IV.2003, leg. Schmidt (NME, cAss).
Comment: The original description of O. hastatus is based on a unique holotype from the Manaslu range (ASSING 2006a).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, On the Orphnebius fauna of the East Palaearctic region. VI. Six new species from China and Taiwan, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini), pp. 101-125 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5413940
Membrane adhesion via competing receptor/ligand bonds
Creators: name: Asfaw, Mesfin
name: Rozycki, Bartosz
name: Lipowsky, Reinhard
name: Weikl, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The adhesion of biological membranes is controlled by various types of receptor and ligand molecules. In this letter, we present a statistical-mechanical model for membranes that interact via receptor/ligand bonds of two different lengths. We show that the equilibrium phase behavior of the membranes is governed by an effective double-well potential. The depths of the two potential wells depend on the concentrations and binding energies of the receptors and ligands. The membranes are unbound for small, and bound for larger potential depths. In the bound state, the length mismatch of the receptor/ligand bonds can lead to lateral phase separation. We derive explicit scaling laws for the critical points of unbinding and phase separation, and determine the prefactors by comparison with Monte Carlo results.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures; to appear in Europhys. Lett
Case study on the identification and classification of small-scale flow patterns in flaring active region
Creators: name: Philishvi, E.
name: Shergelashvili, B. M.
name: Buitendag, S.
name: Raes, J.
name: Poedts, S.
name: Khodachenko, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel methodology to identity flows in the solar atmosphere and classify their velocities as either supersonic, subsonic, or sonic. The proposed methodology consists of three parts. First, an algorithm is applied to the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) image data to locate and track flows, resulting in the trajectory of each flow over time. Thereafter, the differential emission measure inversion method is applied to six AIA channels along the trajectory of each flow in order to estimate its background temperature and sound speed. Finally, we classify each flow as supersonic, subsonic, or sonic by performing simultaneous hypothesis tests on whether the velocity bounds of the flow are larger, smaller, or equal to the background sound speed. The proposed methodology was applied to the SDO image data from the 171 Å spectral line for the date 6 March 2012 from 12:22:00 to 12:35:00 and again for the date 9 March 2012 from 03:00:00 to 03:24:00. Eighteen plasma flows were detected, 11 of which were classified as supersonic, 3 as subsonic, and 3 as sonic at a $70\%$ level of significance. Out of all these cases, 2 flows cannot be strictly ascribed to one of the respective categories as they change from the subsonic state to supersonic and vice versa. We labelled them as a subclass of transonic flows. The proposed methodology provides an automatic and scalable solution to identify small-scale flows and to classify their velocities as either supersonic, subsonic, or sonic. We identified and classified small-scale flow patterns in flaring loops. The results show that the flows can be classified into four classes: sub-, super-, trans-sonic, and sonic. The detected flows from AIA images can be analyzed in combination with the other high-resolution observational data, such as Hi-C 2.1 data, and be used for the development of theories of the formation of flow patterns.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A
That which is spirit is spirit: Male and Female Quaker Perspectives in Political Context
Creators: name: McGeever, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: England
male perspective
preachers
Quaker
seventeenth-century
Women's Meetings

description: Female Quaker preachers of mid-seventeenth century England perplexed their non-Quaker contemporaries, but found initial encouragement within their sect.  Despite extensive research conducted on and about Quakerism and its members during the English civil wars and Revolution some questions are left unanswered, in particular connections between male and female members are often overlooked.  Since the Quaker sect valued spiritual egalitarianism, the contributions of each sex deserve examination.  This study applies a comparative gendered approach to Quaker attitudes towards female preaching through the mid- and late-seventeenth century.  It is essential to examine the male perspective on female preaching alongside female perspectives because the men initially supported the public presence of women despite its clear opposition to patriarchal society and English views of masculinity.  In this thesis I explore the varied ideas and attitudes toward acceptable preaching during the political upheaval of the civil war years of the 1640s, the justifications for Quaker preaching methods as provided by male and female Friends during the Protectorate of the 1650s, and how these ideas compared to the Quietist changes instituted by the sect in the Restoration years following 1660.  Analysis of publications authored by non-Quakers demonstrates the established acceptable preaching actions in the seventeenth-century and therefore provides a larger context for understanding the radical label applied to Quakerism.  This information further expands our knowledge of the internal perceptions of preaching and progression of Quakerism toward Quietism in the 1660s as well as provide solid examples of how the Inner Light was interpreted as spiritual equality.
Of milk and honey : returns to education and migration of filipinos
Creators: name: Cabalfin, Michael
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: Previous studies show high returns to primary education and decreasing returns to education in the Philippines. The first part of this thesis shows that standard estimates of returns to education capture the effects of ability and education quality. It finds that accounting for education quality reduces returns to education and that returns to education quality amount to three-fourths the returns to quantity of education. Moreover, accounting for ability using sibling fixed-effects estimation reduces returns to schooling by 70 percent, yields no significant returns to basic education, and yields increasing returns to higher education. The study also finds unequal education returns across Philippine regions associated with uneven economic development, which may be driving internal and international migration of Filipinos. The second part of this thesis aims to estimate the impacts of proximate and underlying factors on both permanent and temporary migration from the Philippines. Contrary to theory, it finds that migration rises with increasing domestic wages, providing additional insight into the empirical literature on the 'migration hump'. While permanent and temporary migration respond the same way to most 'push and pull' factors, findings suggest that permanent migrants are positively selected from the Philippine labor force while temporary migrants are negatively selected in the destination labor force. Although temporary migrants earn lower wages than natives in the destination countries, they respond positively to destination wages. The third part of this thesis aims to estimate the returns to migration and education for overseas Filipino workers. It finds that earnings of overseas Filipino workers in most key destinations are higher than those of domestic workers, but their returns to schooling are not significantly different from, or are even lower than, those of domestic workers. These findings confirm the negative selection of temporary migrants. Apart from purchasing power parity gains to either earnings or returns to schooling, there are also monetary gains in the conversion of foreign earnings to the local currency through the US dollar (as in the case of remittances).
Orphnebius paucisetosus ASSING 2009
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Orphnebius
Orphnebius paucisetosus

description: Orphnebius paucisetosus ASSING, 2009
Material examined Nepal: 1♂, Taplejung district, Bhalukhop, 11.-21.V.2013, leg. Kučera (cAss).
Comment: The above male is the first specimen recorded since the original description, which is based on a unique male from Taplejung district (ASSING 2009).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, On the Orphnebius fauna of the East Palaearctic region. VI. Six new species from China and Taiwan, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini), pp. 101-125 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5413940
Orphnebius mutabilis ASSING 2006
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Orphnebius
Orphnebius mutabilis

description: Orphnebius mutabilis ASSING, 2006
Material examined Nepal: 1♂, Manaslu, E-slope of Ngali Khola valley, 28°22N, 84°30E, 2800-3000 m, 28.V.2005, leg. Schmidt (NME); 2 exs., Kali Gandaki valley, above Lete, 2800 m, 19.V.2002, leg. Schmidt (NME, cAss); 1 ex., Dhaulagiri, SE slope, SW-slope of Lete pass, 2700-3000 m, 13.V.2002, leg. Schmidt (NME).
Comment: The known distribution of O. mutabilis extends from the Dhaulagiri range in Central Nepal to the very east of Nepal.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, On the Orphnebius fauna of the East Palaearctic region. VI. Six new species from China and Taiwan, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini), pp. 101-125 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 106, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5413940
Generation of Multiple Circular Walls on a Thin Film of Nematic Liquid Crystal by Laser Scanning
Creators: name: Kojima, M.
name: Yamamoto, J.
name: Sadakane, K.
name: Yoshikawa, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We found that multiple circular walls (MCW) can be generated on a thin film of a nematic liquid crystal through a spiral scanning of a focused IR laser. The ratios between radii of adjacent rings of MCW were almost constant. These constant ratios can be explained theoretically by minimization of the Frank elastic free energy of nematic medium. The director field on a MCW exhibits chiral symmetry-breaking although the elastic free energies of both chiral MCWs are degenerated, i.e., the director on a MCW can rotate clockwise or counterclockwise along the radial direction.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Chemical Physics Letters 2nd Edition
Mind the gap : psychological jurisprudence and the professional regulation of lawyer dishonesty
Creators: name: Hall, Katherine Helen
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: KL82.H35 2011
subject: Legal ethics Australia New South Wales
subject: Lawyers Australia
subject: Practice of law Australia

description: This thesis considers the role of professional regulation in disciplining lawyer dishonesty. It defines dishonesty as acts done, whether at the suggestion of a partner, a client or another lawyer, that enable a client to act dishonestly. In particular, it focuses upon the professional norms, practices and rules that regulate large firm lawyer misconduct in Australia. As the size and sophistication of law firms has grown, so too has evidence of lawyers being complicit in the dishonest actions of their clients. This thesis examines how lawyers working within these environments navigate the practical and psychological challenges of acting honestly for their clients. It undertakes a theoretical inquiry into both the importance of lawyer honesty and the often conflicting norms and pressures of large firm practice . It also draws upon research in cognitive and social psychology to develop an empirically-grounded framework for lawyers' decisions to act dishonestly. In particular, it focuses upon the role of rationalisations in encouraging a pragmatic approach to clients' dishonest acts, especially in the context of the complexities and ambiguities of commercial legal practice. In the continuing absence of a national regulatory scheme governing the legal profession in Australia, the thesis focuses upon the disciplinary system operating in New South Wales and undertakes a theoretical inquiry into the importance of regulating lawyer dishonesty and an empirical study of NSW disciplinary cases to understand how lawyer dishonesty is dealt with by the professional and regulatory bodies in that state. It shows that significant gaps exist in the current regulatory scheme, particularly in the context of "who" disciplinary actions are brought against, "what" misconduct actions are for and "how" practitioners are dealt with. It argues that these gaps undermine the legitimacy of the regulatory anddisciplinary systems, which have as their goal providing a consistent scheme for the regulation of lawyers and the enforcement of standards of competence and honesty across the legal professlon. Finally, the thesis considers whether the regulatory regime governing professional misconduct in NSW can be effectively used to improve the standard of large firm lawyer honesty. It argues "yes" and suggests that three regulatory responses are required: firstly, normative issues need to remain at the centre of the regulation of professional misconduct; secondly, all law firms should be subject to the requirement to implement appropriate management systems and finally, specific provisions should be introduced to impose liability on large firm lawyers who assist their clients to act dishonestly.
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Creators: name: Zellmer, Johanna
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Aluminum Exhibitions
subject: Aluminum construction Exhibitions

description: "Research into the presentation of water on the table in the form of etched, pressformed and raised objects, which originate from fish shapes and scales. The work explores this concern through a series of drinking vessels in anodised aluminium, nickel silver and sterling silver. A study taking the form of an exhibition of hollow ware exhibited at the Canberra School of Art gallery from March 4-16, 1997, which comprises the outcome of the Studio Practice component (100%), together with the Report which documents the nature of the course of study undertaken."
Orphnebius ancorarius ASSING 2011
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Orphnebius
Orphnebius ancorarius

description: Orphnebius ancorarius ASSING, 2011
Material examined Nepal: 1♂, 2 exs., Rasuwa District, 1.5 km NE " Bhargu " [probably identical to Bharku, approximately 28°08'N, 85°19'E], 2000 m, 12.IV.1985, leg. Smetana (MHNG, cAss).
Comment: Previously, only the holotype from Ilam District in East Nepal was known (ASSING 2011).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, On the Orphnebius fauna of the East Palaearctic region. VI. Six new species from China and Taiwan, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini), pp. 101-125 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 106, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5413940
A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach for Satellite Autonomy
Creators: name: Sikka, Sidhdharth
name: Sikka, Harshvardhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous spacecraft maneuver planning using an evolutionary algorithmic approach is investigated. Simulated spacecraft were placed into four different initial orbits. Each was allowed a string of thirty delta-v impulse maneuvers in six cartesian directions, the positive and negative x, y and z directions. The goal of the spacecraft maneuver string was to, starting from some non-polar starting orbit, place the spacecraft into a polar, low eccentricity orbit. A genetic algorithm was implemented, using a mating, fitness, mutation and crossover scheme for impulse strings. The genetic algorithm was successfully able to produce this result for all the starting orbits. Performance and future work is also discussed.
Orphnebius tricuspis ASSING 2009
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Orphnebius
Orphnebius tricuspis

description: Orphnebius tricuspis ASSING, 2009
Material examined: China: 1♀, Yunnan, Gaoligong Shan, Baoshan Pref., 32 km SE Tengchong, 24°51-53'N, 98°45'E, degraded primary and secondary forest, litter sifted, 26.VIII.2009, leg. Schülke (cSch).
Comment: The above specimen was collected close to the type locality and represents the first record of this species since the original description.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, On the Orphnebius fauna of the East Palaearctic region. VI. Six new species from China and Taiwan, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini), pp. 101-125 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 106, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5413940
An empirical investigation of the g-index for 26 physicists in comparison with the h-index, the A-index, and the R-index
Creators: name: Schreiber, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hirsch has introduced the h-index to quantify an individual's scientific research output by the largest number h of a scientist's papers that received at least h citations. In order to take into account the highly skewed frequency distribution of citations, Egghe proposed the g-index as an improvement of the h-index. I have worked out 26 practical cases of physicists from the Institute of Physics at Chemnitz University of Technology and compare the h and g values. It is demonstrated that the g-index discriminates better between different citation patterns. This can also be achieved by evaluating Jin's A-index which reflects the average number of citations in the h-core and interpreting it in conjunction with the h-index. h and A can be combined into the R-index to measure the h-core's citation intensity. I have also determined the A and R values for the 26 data sets. For a better comparison, I utilize interpolated indices. The correlations between the various indices as well as with the total number of papers and the highest citation counts are discussed. The largest Pearson correlation coefficient is found between g and R. Although the correlation between g and h is relatively strong, the arrangement of the data set is significantly different, depending on whether they are put into order according to the values of either h or g.
description: 28 pages, including 4 figures with 6 plots, 4 tables accepted for publication in J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Techn
Quantum chaos and fluctuations in isolated nuclear spin systems
Creators: name: Ludlow, J. A.
name: Sushkov, O. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using numerical simulations we investigate dynamical quantum chaos in isolated nuclear spin systems. We determine the structure of quantum states, investigate the validity of the Curie law for magnetic susceptibility and find the spectrum of magnetic noise. The spectrum is the same for positive and negative temperatures. The study is motivated by recent interest in condensed-matter experiments for searches of fundamental parity- and time-reversal-invariance violations. In these experiments nuclear spins are cooled down to microkelvin temperatures and are completely decoupled from their surroundings. A limitation on statistical sensitivity of the experiments arises from the magnetic noise.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Spontaneous symmetry breaking of gap solitons in double-well traps
Creators: name: Trippenbach, M.
name: Infeld, E.
name: Gocalek, J.
name: Matuszewski, Michal
name: Oberthaler, M.
name: Malomed, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a two dimensional model for the Bose-Einstein condensate with both attractive and repulsive nonlinearities. We assume a combination of a double well potential in one direction, and an optical lattice along the perpendicular coordinate. We look for dual core solitons in this model, focusing on their symmetry-breaking bifurcations. The analysis employs a variational approximation, which is verified by numerical results. The bifurcation which transforms antisymmetric gap solitons into asymmetric ones is of supercritical type in the case of repulsion; in the attraction model, increase of the optical latttice strength leads to a gradual transition from subcritical bifurcation (for symmetric solitons) to a supercritical one.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Broadband UBVRI Photometry of Horizontal-Branch and Metal-Poor Candidates from the HK and Hamburg/ESO Surveys. I
Creators: name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Flynn, Chris
name: Rossi, Silvia
name: Sommer-Larsen, Jesper
name: Wilhelm, Ronald
name: Marsteller, Brian
name: Lee, YoungSun
name: De Lee, Nathan
name: Krugler, Julie
name: Deliyannis, Constantine P.
name: Zickgraf, Franz-Josef
name: Holmberg, Johan
name: Onehag, Anna
name: Eriksson, Anders
name: Terndrup, Donald M.
name: Salim, Samir
name: Andersen, Johannes
name: Nordstrom, Birgitta
name: Christlieb, Norbert
name: Frebel, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report broadband UBV and/or BVRI CCD photometry for a total of 1857 stars in the thick-disk and halo populations of the Galaxy. The majority of our targets were selected as candidate field horizontal-branch or other A-type stars (FHB/A, N = 576), or candidate low-metallicity stars (N = 1221), from the HK and Hamburg/ESO objective-prism surveys. Similar data for a small number of additional stars from other samples are also reported. These data are being used for several purposes. In the case of the FHB/A candidates they are used to accurately separate the lower-gravity FHB stars from various higher-gravity A-type stars, a subsample that includes the so-called Blue Metal Poor stars, halo and thick-disk blue stragglers, main-sequence A-type dwarfs, and Am and Ap stars. These data are also being used to derive photometric distance estimates to high-velocity hydrogen clouds in the Galaxy and for improved measurements of the mass of the Galaxy. Photometric data for the metal-poor candidates are being used to refine estimates of stellar metallicity for objects with available medium-resolution spectroscopy, to obtain distance estimates for kinematic analyses, and to establish initial estimates of effective temperature for analysis of high-resolution spectroscopy of the stars for which this information now exists.
description: 22 pages, including 3 figures, 5 tables, and two ascii files of full data, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (Supplements)
Images and Reality: War Brides and Media Representation
Creators: name: Dufresne, Katherine
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: British War Brides
German War Brides
Japanese War Brides
Media Representations
War Brides
Word War II

description: This project contains three parts: a discussion of the historiography on war brides, an essay about the growth and variety of war bride memoirs, and a lecture about World War Two war brides and the media. The lecture argues that various media sources tended to depict war British, German, and Japanese brides in a negative light, but they by and large shifted to more positive representations as the numbers of war brides increased. Though there were a number of explanations for this, the primary one is that U.S. government officials came to see war brides as a bridge toward improved relationships between the United States and the sending countries.
Orphnebius alesi ASSING 2010
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Orphnebius
Orphnebius alesi

description: Orphnebius alesi ASSING, 2010
Material examined China: 1♀, Yunnan, mountains S Jianshui, 23°25'N, 102°51'E, 1890 m, subtropical broad-leaved forest, litter sifted, 22.VIII.2014, leg. Schülke (cSch).
Comment: The original description of O. alesi is based on a unique male from the Gaoligong Shan (ASSING 2010). The above female is highly similar to the holotype based on external characters. The previously unknown spermatheca is similar to that of other species of the O. hauseri group.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, On the Orphnebius fauna of the East Palaearctic region. VI. Six new species from China and Taiwan, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini), pp. 101-125 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 110, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5413940
A Primer on Focused Solar Energetic Particle Transport: Basic physics and recent modelling results
Creators: name: Berg, J. P. van den
name: Strauss, R. D.
name: Effenberger, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The basics of focused transport as applied to solar energetic particles are reviewed, paying special attention to areas of common misconception. The micro-physics of charged particles interacting with slab turbulence are investigated to illustrate the concept of pitch-angle scattering, where after the distribution function and focused transport equation are introduced as theoretical tools to describe the transport processes and it is discussed how observable quantities can be calculated from the distribution function. In particular, two approximations, the diffusion-advection and the telegraph equation, are compared in simplified situations to the full solution of the focused transport equation describing particle motion along a magnetic field line. It is shown that these approximations are insufficient to capture the complexity of the physical processes involved. To overcome such limitations, a finite-difference model, which is open for use by the public, is introduced to solve the focused transport equation. The use of the model is briefly discussed and it is shown how the model can be applied to reproduce an observed solar energetic electron event, providing insights into the acceleration and transport processes involved. Past work and literature on the application of these concepts are also reviewed, starting with the most basic models and building up to more complex models.
description: This is a pre-print of an article published in Space Science Reviews. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00771-x
Letter from the Land Registry Office to I. H. Hallot Esq, Barrister & Co., March 2, 1909
Creators: name: Land Registry Office
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to I. H. Hallot Esq, Barrister & Co. from the Land Registry Office, dated March 2, 1909, regarding Rainbow Ranch.
A moving mesh method with variable relaxation time
Creators: name: Soheili, Ali Reza
name: Stockie, John M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M50, 65M06, 35K57

description: We propose a moving mesh adaptive approach for solving time-dependent partial differential equations. The motion of spatial grid points is governed by a moving mesh PDE (MMPDE) in which a mesh relaxation time τis employed as a regularization parameter. Previously reported results on MMPDEs have invariably employed a constant value of the parameter τ. We extend this standard approach by incorporating a variable relaxation time that is calculated adaptively alongside the solution in order to regularize the mesh appropriately throughout a computation. We focus on singular problems involving self-similar blow-up to demonstrate the advantages of using a variable relaxation ime over a fixed one in terms of accuracy, stability and efficiency.
description: 21 pages
Orphnebius scissus ASSING 2009
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Orphnebius
Orphnebius scissus

description: Orphnebius scissus ASSING, 2009
Material examined: China: 1♀, Yunnan, Dali Bai Aut. Pref., Wuliang Shan, 11 km SW Weishan, 25°09'N, 100°14'E, 2520 m, pine forest, litter sifted, 14.IX.2009, leg. Schülke (cSch).
Comment: The original description of O. scissus is based on a unique male from the Gaoligong Shan (ASSING 2009). No significant external differences between the above female and the holotype were found suggesting that they should represent different species.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, On the Orphnebius fauna of the East Palaearctic region. VI. Six new species from China and Taiwan, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini), pp. 101-125 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 110, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5413940
Rigidity checking for matching 3D point correspondence under perspective projection
Creators: name: McReynolds, Daniel Peter Roland
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: A solution is proposed for the problem of determining the correspondence between sets of point features extracted from a pair of images taken of a static scene from disparate viewpoints. The relative position and orientation between the viewpoints as well as the structure of the scene is assumed to be unknown. Point features from a pair of views are deemed to be in correspondence if they are projectively determined by the same scene points. The determination of correspondences is a critical sub-task for recovering the structure of the world from a set of images taken by a moving camera, a task usually referred to as structure-from-motion, or for determining the relative motion between the scene and the observer. A key property of a static world, assumed by the proposed method, is rigidity. Rigidity of the world and knowledge of the intrinsic camera parameters determines a powerful constraint on point correspondences. The main contribution of this thesis is the rigidity checking method. Rigidity checking is a tractable and robust algorithm for verifying the potential rigidity of a set of hypothesized three-dimensional correspondences from a pair of images under perspective projection. The rigidity checking method, which is based on a set of structure-from-motion constraints, is uniquely designed to answer the question, "Could these corresponding points from two views be the projection of a rigid configuration?" The rigidity constraint proposed in this thesis embodies the recovery of the extrinsic (relative orientation) camera parameters which determine the epipolar geometry - the only available geometric constraint for matching images. The implemented solution combines radiometric and geometric constraints to determine the correct set of correspondences. The radiometric constraint consists of a set of grey-level differential invariants due to Schmid and Mohr. Several enhancements are made to the grey-level differential invariant matching scheme which improves the robustness and speed of the method. The specification of differential invariants for grey-scale images is extended to color images, and experimental results for matching point features with color differential invariants are reported.
Letter from the Manager of the Royal Bank of Canada in Vernon, B.C., to the Rainbow Ranche, March 5, 1909
Creators: name: Canada, Royal Bank Of
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to the Rainbow Ranche from the manager of the Royal Bank of Canada in Vernon, B.C., dated March 5, 1909, regarding a deed from the Ranche to Mr & Mrs Pixton.
China's impact on the global iron ore market
Creators: name: Hurst, Luke William Lapin
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: The scale and pace of China's iron ore demand shock is unprecedented. This study sets out to answer the question of how the rapid growth in China's iron ore demand has impacted on the organisation and structure of the global iron ore market. In this context, it makes a corollary contribution to the analysis of bulk commodity market adjustment and the impact of short-run strategic interventions on long-term market outcomes. To answer the question of how China's growth has impacted the iron ore market, an economic framework is introduced to understand the theoretical structure of a bulk commodity market (like the iron ore market) and how it might be expected to adjust to a positive demand shock under competitive assumptions over the short- and long-run. The market adjustment framework is then applied to understand the historical development of the Asian iron ore market and the structure of the market in the lead up to China's demand shock. The competitiveness of the iron ore supply response to China's demand shock is analysed along with the impact of strategic short-run interventions by the Chinese state. The study examines the impact of Chinese state support for iron ore procurement and the short- and long-run effects of this support on the competitiveness of market outcomes; the examination of Chinese state support for vertical integration into African ore procurement is complemented by field observations of the redevelopment of Liberia's iron ore industry. The study suggests that although the iron ore market adjusted to China's demand shock in a competitive way over the long run, strategic interventions have also shaped outcomes in the market. The analysis concludes that short-run strategic interventions in the iron ore market have not been costless due to the long-run contestability of the market despite the bilateral advantages Australia has with the Asian market, such as geographic closeness. Over the long run, the study shows that supply-side interventions have led to the development of a competitive fringe to the Asian market and recent demand side interventions have led to the collapse of the benchmark pricing mechanism, which subsequently cost Asian importers from Australia considerable bilateral quasi-rents.