cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nihilism and the Neoconservatives: Allan Bloom's Encounter with the American Intellectual Right
Creators: Hamburger, Jacob
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Conservatism
Intellectuals--Political activity
History

description: Before he became a national celebrity following the success his 1987 bestseller The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom hardly considered himself an “intellectual.” Reserving that term for thinkers who engage themselves in the political and cultural controversies of the present, Bloom, a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago, preferred to think of himself as a teacher of the great ideas of the past. Yet as the the neoconservative intellectual movement emerged as the most vocal source of dissent against the radical student movements of the Sixties, which Bloom despised, he slowly gravitated towards their cause. Bloom’s philosophical concern with nihilism – the inability to recognize authoritative foundations of belief – led him to endorse the views of neoconservatives such as Daniel Bell, Irving Kristol, and Nathan Glazer that American politics in the late twentieth century had been co-opted by a radicalism that rejected the legitimacy of modernity, capitalism,and liberal democracy. Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind put forward a provocative restatement of such a view as the neoconservatives sought to establish themselves as the intellectual vanguard of the American Right in the late 1980s. As a result, Bloom played a central role in helping neoconservatism form alliances with various other conservative movements in the post-Cold War context. His influence in this regard was apparent in the neoconservative polemics against “political correctness” and “postmodernism” in the early 1990s. This paper begins by highlighting the central convergences between Bloom’s ideas and the intellectual project of the early neoconservative social theorists and culture critics. Next, it examines Bloom’s engagements with the neoconservatives’ growing network of intellectual and political institutions as he began to formulate the arguments of The Closing of the American Mind. Bloom’s bestseller, it argues articulated a way for neoconservatives to reconcile their original project with the conservative mainstream during the last years of the Reagan Presidency. Finally, tracing Bloom’s impact on the “political correctness” controversies of the early 1990s, it attempts to make sense of the shift in the neoconservative rhetoric from the initial project of Bell, Kristol, and Glazer in the 1970s. Bloom’s career serves as a vivid testament to how such shifts are difficult to resist for whoever seeks to step out of the world of philosophy and theory to join the intellectuals’ world of political engagement.
Exponential mixing and log h time scales in quantized hyperbolic maps on the torus
Creators: name: Bonechi, F.
name: De Bievre, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the behaviour, in the simultaneous limits \hbar going to 0, t going to \infty, of the Husimi and Wigner distributions of initial coherent states and position eigenstates, evolved under the quantized hyperbolic toral automorphisms and the quantized baker map. We show how the exponential mixing of the underlying dynamics manifests itself in those quantities on time scales logarithmic in \hbar. The phase space distributions of the coherent states, evolved under either of those dynamics, are shown to equidistribute on the torus in the limit \hbar going to 0, for times t between |\log\hbar|/(2γ) and |\log|\hbar|/γ, where γis the Lyapounov exponent of the classical system. For times shorter than |\log\hbar|/(2γ), they remain concentrated on the classical trajectory of the center of the coherent state. The behaviour of the phase space distributions of evolved position eigenstates, on the other hand, is not the same for the quantized automorphisms as for the baker map. In the first case, they equidistribute provided t goes to \infty as \hbar goes to 0, and as long as t is shorter than |\log\hbar|/γ. In the second case, they remain localized on the evolved initial position at all such times.
title: Making ‘Race’ at the Urban Margins: Latin American and Caribbean Migration in Multicultural Chile
Creators: name: Bonhomme, Macarena
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores how ‘race’ is made at the national and local level in multicultural postcolonial Chile. Furthermore, it examines how Latin American and Caribbean migrants negotiate both state and everyday racisms, navigating boundaries of belonging at the urban margins. Racist state politics have not only been embedded since colonial times and the foundations of the Chilean nation-state by the systematic denial of the presence and rights of Afro-Chileans and indigenous communities, but are reinforced by immigration policies that have created exclusionary boundaries against the colonial ‘non-white’ ‘other,’ especially Afro-descendants. Drawing on a 17-month ethnography, 70 in-depth interviews and two focus groups with migrants and Chileans between 2015 and 2018, this thesis deconstructs contemporary racism in Latin America amid growing South-South migration, uncovering multiple interplaying factors. I show how immigration policies have impacted migrants’ lives, ranking them into racial hierarchies of belonging that are reproduced and materialised in the neighbourhood, even reinforcing everyday racisms. It reveals that contemporary racism emerges from a complex entanglement between ‘old racisms’ of biological heredity and cultural racisms. Foremost, it exposes how racism and the process of ‘othering’ operates at different levels across society. Both Chileans and migrants redefine their ‘racial’ identities and constantly assert their ‘whiteness’ in different ways. Racial formations and colonial representations of ‘indigeneity’ and ‘African-ness’ are redefined and racisms are reproduced in new instantiations amid the struggle for resources. This thesis contributes empirically and theoretically to migration, racial, and de- and post-colonial studies in Latin America, transcending both the nationally-bounded and biologically-grounded ideas on how racism operates. While Chileans produce difference to assert a superior status by making migrants feel like ‘space invaders,’ migrants, especially former migrants, produce difference to navigate racisms and claim their ‘right to the city’ amidst social exclusion. This ethnography unveils the most challenging aspect of multiculturalism.
Ultrahigh field electron cyclotron resonance absorption in In$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$As films
Creators: name: Zudov, M. A.
name: Kono, J.
name: Matsuda, Y. H.
name: Ikaida, T.
name: Miura, N.
name: Munekata, H.
name: Sanders, G. D.
name: Sun, Y.
name: Stanton, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out an ultrahigh field cyclotron resonance study of $n$-type In$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$As films, with Mn composition $x$ ranging from 0 to 12%, grown on GaAs by low temperature molecular beam epitaxy. We observe that the electron cyclotron resonance peak shifts to lower field with increasing $x$. A detailed comparison of experimental results with calculations based on a modified Pidgeon-Brown model allows us to estimate the {\em s-d} and {\em p-d} exchange coupling constants, $α$ and $β$, for this important III-V dilute magnetic semiconductor system.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Design and performance of a TDC ASIC for the upgrade of the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube detector
Creators: name: Liang, Yu
name: Wang, Jinhong
name: Xiao, Xiong
name: Pipino, Alessandra
name: Guo, Yuxiang
name: An, Qi
name: Baschirotto, Andrea
name: Chapman, J. W.
name: Dai, Tiesheng
name: de Matteis, Marcello
name: Fras, Markus
name: Kortner, Oliver
name: Kroha, Hubert
name: Resta, Federica
name: Richter, Robert
name: Zhao, Lei
name: Zhao, Zhengguo
name: Zhou, Bing
name: Zhu, Junjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the prototype of a time-to-digital (TDC) ASIC for the upgrade of the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector for high-luminosity LHC operation. This ASIC is based on a previously submitted demonstrator ASIC designed for timing performance evaluation, and includes all features necessary for the various operation modes, as well as the migration to the TSMC 130 nm CMOS technology. We present the TDC design with the emphasis on added features and performance optimization. Tests of the timing performance demonstrate that this ASIC meets the design specifications. The TDC has a bin size of about 780 ps, and a timing bin variations within 40 ps for all 24 channels with leading and trailing edge digitization, while the power consumption has been limited to 250 mW, corresponding to a consumption of about 5.2 mW per edge measurement.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
The chiral WZNW phase space as a quasi-Poisson space
Creators: name: Balog, J.
name: Feher, L.
name: Palla, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is explained that the chiral WZNW phase space is a quasi-Poisson space with respect to the `canonical' Lie quasi-bialgebra which is the classical limit of Drinfeld's quasi-Hopf deformation of the universal enveloping algebra. This exemplifies the notion of quasi-Poisson-Lie symmetry introduced recently by Alekseev and Kosmann-Schwarzbach, and also permits us to generalize certain dynamical twists considered previously in this example.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX, expanded by a new section in v2
The Ambiguous Home of Life and Death: The Symbolic Uses of the Skene and the Female in Aeschylus' Agamemnon.
Creators: name: McNamara, Rebecca Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2019

description: Aeschylus’ words have been dissected time and again as the key to our understanding of the notorious figure of Clytemnestra. In this article, I will survey the current literature on key scenes from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, but explore them from a perspective that studies the surviving words in tandem with the spatial dynamics of the theatre. The traditional role of the woman within the home as wife and mother is challenged both through the powerful words of Clytemnestra and through the dark opening of the skene onstage, which symbolizes the life-giving and death-bringing potential of the female in Greek thought. Focusing on the ‘tapestry scene’, I will examine how the cascading red tapestry at once transforms the house of Atreus into a devouring mouth and into a womb, the parallel orifices that inspired such male anxiety in the ancient world. The connotations of the textile woven by the women of the house, over which a war of words takes place between husband and wife, resembles Clytemnestra’s deceptive and alluring tongue, which eventually proves Agamemnon’s downfall. And yet, as the womb has connections with life so it does with death. The memory of the brutal slaughter committed by Agamemnon’s ancestors, brought vividly to life by Cassandra in front of the palace gates, creates a nightmarish manifestation of the house of Hades before the audience’s eyes. This suggestion of vertical depth, which the dark interior captures, transforms Clytemnestra into an otherworldly monster who lurks in the depths of the skene-underworld. Through unlocking the secrets of the interior we can truly appreciate Aeschylus’ Clytemnestra: a character who defies the limitations of male expectation and gender.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 3 No 1 (2017)
Sericopompilus neotropicalis
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Sericopompilus
Sericopompilus neotropicalis

description: Sericopompilus neotropicalis (Cameron)
 MEXICO: Sinaloa State, Mazatlán; 28 July 2020, 1537 HST; F. Farriols Sarabia. Host: Eriophora edax (Blackwall) (Araneidae), adult or penultimate male. The wasp grasped the immobilized orb-weaver’s chelicera with her mandibles and, with wings angled upward, carried it forward on stems and leaves of a plant (Farriols Sarabia 2020a; Farriols Sarabia, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, 2021 pers. comm.).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (928) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6533498
Big data in the digital humanities: a case study on sharing architecture data and cross-discipline collaboration
Creators: name: Bogdanović, Jelena
name: Forehand, Leslie
name: Hardeman, Megan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Digital Humanities
subject: 120101 Architectural Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 120104 Architectural Science and Technology (incl. Acoustics, Lighting, Structure and Ecologically Sustainable Design)
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120102 Architectural Heritage and Conservation
subject: 120199 Architecture not elsewhere classified

description: Key points:Jelena and Leslie undertook a full laser scan of Studenica church, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Serbia. These scans have been turned into the videos, images, and vector drawings that are currently stored on DataShare, Iowa State University’s data repository, powered by Figshare.They chose to upload their data to DataShare as it allowed them to store large amounts of data and meet the open access requirements of their grant.By sharing the data as widely as possible both on DataShare and on their project website, they’re hoping researchers from a variety of disciples access and reuse the data.
No Game for Boys to Play  Debating the Safety of Youth Football, 1945-2015
Creators: Bachynski, Kathleen Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: High school athletes
Football injuries
Football--Social aspects
Football for children
Football
Public health
History

description: Tackle football has been one of the most popular sports for boys in the United States since the mid-twentieth century. This dissertation examines how debates over the safety of football for children at the high school level and younger have changed from 1945 through the present. After World War II, the expansion of youth tackle football leagues, particularly for pre-pubescent children, fostered a new range of medical and educational concerns. Yet calls for limits on tackle football were largely obscured by the political and social culture of the Cold War, including beliefs about violence, masculinity, and competition.
      A broad range of groups and individuals were involved in debating the safety of youth football throughout the remainder of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. These groups included doctors, coaches, educators, lawyers, engineers, parents, athletes, journalists, and sporting goods manufacturers. Their arguments over the risks and benefits of youth football involved not only the sport’s effects on physical health, but also on social and emotional well-being. By the 1970s, researchers were applying injury epidemiology methods to studying key mechanisms involved in football injuries, while a broader consumer product safety movement contributed to the development of the first football helmet standards. Football equipment not only remained a primary focus of football safety debates, but often symbolized safety itself. Sporting goods manufacturers largely succeeded in framing the issue of football safety as a matter of individual responsibility.
      The social position of children and their communities shaped debates over the risks and benefits of football, including the sport’s spectator nature. By the early twentieth-first century, concerns about football-related brain injuries at all levels of the sport emerged as a topic of national debate. New medical findings and the reporting and advocacy of journalists and former athletes contributed to increasing awareness of brain trauma in the sport. Debates over the appropriate policy recommendations to make in the context of uncertainty over youth football’s long-term consequences have persisted since 1945 through the present.
title: Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch für das Jahr 1857
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Meyer
Year: 1857
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Stadt Braunschweig
subject: 902

description: Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch, vol. 1857
Radiation-induced Effects on Data Integrity and Link Stability of the RD53A Pixel Readout Chip
Creators: name: Vogt, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase-2 upgrade of the LHC will require novel pixel readout chips, which deliver hit information at drastically increased data rates and tolerate unprecedented radiation levels. The large-scale prototype chip RD53A has been designed by the RD53 collaboration and manufactured in a 65 nm CMOS process, suitable for the innermost layers of both the ATLAS and the CMS experiment. In order to verify the radiation hardness design goal of 500 Mrad total ionizing dose, RD53A has been irradiated using X-rays. The radiation effects on the performance of the data link, reset circuit and the clock generation have been investigated. Furthermore, the operating margins in terms of supply voltage and frequency have been analyzed.
title: Oenothera rosea L' Hér. ex Aiton
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
Ground-State Degeneracy of Potts Antiferromagnets on Two-Dimensional Lattices: Approach Using Infinite Cyclic Strip Graphs
Creators: name: Shrock, Robert
name: Tsai, Shan-Ho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The q-state Potts antiferromagnet on a lattice $Λ$ exhibits nonzero ground state entropy $S_0=k_B \ln W$ for sufficiently large q and hence is an exception to the third law of thermodynamics. An outstanding challenge has been the calculation of W(sq,q) on the square (sq) lattice. We present here an exact calculation of W on an infinite-length cyclic strip of the square lattice which embodies the expected analytic properties of W(sq,q). Similar results are given for the kagomé lattice.
description: 8 pages, Latex, 2 postscript figures
The Architecture of Memory: The Case of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis
Creators: name: Gerolemou, Maria
name: Zira, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2019

description: This paper aims at analysing the function of memory in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis from the perspective of its original conception and also with regard to a contemporary staging. The first part of the paper draws on memory in connection to the prehistory of the Trojan War. Retelling the sacrifice of Iphigenia, Euripides discusses memory as a non stable entity, which is formed by the specific social frameworks in which it operates. At the same time, the dynamics of memory are explored in the play through the examination of medial processes, as the written and oral word, through which memories come into the public arena, thus becoming collective ones. The aim of this first part, therefore, is to provide a bridge between the social dynamics of memory and the impact of medial technologies in shaping information about the past. Euripides’ dynamic understanding of memory, where individual and groups constantly reconfigure their relationship with their past, brings us to the second part of the paper. The story of the sacrifice of Iphigenia has a strong reception history, influenced by narratives of Christian martyrdom and contemporary nationalism. A new reading of the play for a contemporary revival will be discussed in order to reexamine this aspect of its reception, by foregrounding the themes of memory and historical amnesia.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 3 No 1 (2017)
Chromaticism and Identity in the Music of Clare Fischer
Creators: name: Kahr
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Darmstädter Beiträge zur Jazzforschung
Counterexample to boundary regularity of a strongly pseudoconvex CR submanifold: An addendum to the paper of Harvey-Lawson
Creators: name: Luk, Hing Sun
name: Yau, Stephen S. -T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this paper is to give a counterexample of Theorem 10.4 in [Ann. of Math. 102 (1975), 223-290]. In the Harvey-Lawson paper, a global result is claimed, but only a local result is proven. This theorem has had a big impact on CR geometry for almost a quarter of a century because one can use the theory of isolated singularities to study the theory of CR manifolds and vice versa.
description: 2 pages, published version
Revision of Dugaldia emmilta (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes) from the Toolebuc Formation, Albian of Australia, with comments on the jaw mechanics
Creators: name: Cavin, Lionel
name: Berrell, Rodney W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Dugaldia emmilta is a teleostean fish found in the late Albian Toolebuc Formation in Queensland, Australia. In the original description, D. emmilta was attributed to the Neoteleostei because of the presence of a tripartite occipital condyle, and the species was postulated to have a basal position among neoteleosteans because of the presence of several plesiomorphic characters. A reexamination of the holotype, together with the description of two new specimens, indicates that D. emmilta is an ichthyodectiform fish. A phylogenetic analysis resolves this species as the sister to Ogunichthys + Ichthyodectoidei. This species shows unusual features for an ichthyodectiform, in particular the shape of the mandible and the arrangement of the teeth on the lower jaw. Jaw mechanics in ichthyodectiforms are peculiar because they allow a significant lateral enlargement. In Dugaldia, a similar disposition is present but is exaggerated by specific features of the maxilla and the mandible. Comparisons with the sarcastic fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi), a living blenny that shows a ‘gaping display,’ reveal that Dugaldia was likely able to exhibit extreme lateral mouth enlargement.
The Play about Common Trade and Play about Empty Purse: Cornelis Everaert’s Prequels to Elckerlijc/Everyman?
Creators: name: Albert, Mandy Lowell
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2019

description: This paper proposes a possible link between Elckerlijc, the Dutch-language allegorical play that provided the basis for the well-known English translation Everyman, and two plays by Cornelis Everaert, a sixteenth-century playwright from Bruges writing from within the amateur literary society Chambers of Rhetoric (rederijkerskamers). The two plays are The Play about Common Trade (Spil van Ghemeene Neerrynghe), a serious play, and The Comedy about Empty Purse (Esbattement van Aerm in de Buerse), a lighter comic play. The primary basis for this link is the presence in these two plays of a secondary character named Elckerlijc, the only two known examples of this character name besides the eponymous play that were roughly contemporary with Elckerlijc. There are, however, more than surface-level similarities built into the three incarnations of this character, which have their roots in his status as a mercantile character who has forgotten how to live according to God’s command. In both Common Trade and Empty Purse, Elckerlijc is portrayed as a thoughtless, excessively prudent hoarder of wealth whose lack of virtue and charity in specifically commercial behaviour harms less fortunate tradesmen and labourers by driving them out of the workforce; Everaert blames this unvirtuous behaviour to the continuing dire economic situation that faced sixteenth-century Bruges. The paper draws on Deirdre McCloskey’s theory of “bourgeois virtues” to show how Everaert uses the Elckerlijc character as a foil to participants in a healthy, functioning, and virtuous marketplace. Everyman has been experiencing a resurgence in popularity; directors (and, even more importantly, translators) drawn to that play may also wish to look at Common Trade and Empty Purse as different takes on the character of Elckerlijc, one from a playwright whose work has been too long overlooked.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 3 No 1 (2017)
Poecilopompilus decedens
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Poecilopompilus
Poecilopompilus decedens

description: Poecilopompilus decedens (Smith)
 BRAZIL: Goiás State, Goiânia; 23 April 2009; E. Neri. Host: Misumenops sp. (Thomisidae), adult or subadult female. Three photographs show the wasp (1) atop the immobilized crab spider, venter to venter, as it hung in midair by a silken thread from a spinneret; the wasp grasped the base of the spider’s chelicera with her mandibles; (2) atop the spider grasping the base of its second right leg as the prey laid on its left side on a leaf near ground level; and (3) maintaining the same grasp on the ground atop the spider in a ventral side upward position (Neri 2009).
 BRAZIL: São Paulo State, Jacareí; 20 April 2011; T. Nascimento de Melo. Host: Misumena sp. (Thomisidae), adult or subadult female. The wasp stood above and beside the paralyzed crab spider as it laid on grass, dorsal side upward (Fig. 2; Nascimento de Melo 2011). This host record was listed under Poecilopompilus sp. in Kurczewski et al. (2020b).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (928) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6533498
The First Forty Years. Early Mortgages and Mortgagors of the Haywards Heath Building Society
Creators: name: Ford, Wyn
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 130, 213-231
description: The Haywards Heath Building Society traces its foundation from the first meeting of its directors on 21 November 1890. To commemorate its centenary, the Society published The Story of the Haywards Heath Building Society, 1890-1990 by the present writer, which gives an account of its organization and officers. The present article is concerned with the Society's mortgaging activities during the first forty years of its existence.
No Longer Exempt: Higher Education’s Entrée into Lobbying
Creators: Camp, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education, Higher--Political aspects
Lobbying
Education and state
Student aid--Education (Higher)

description: As populist forces stretch apart higher education and government, colleges lobby in measurable ways to secure scarce funding and respond to accountability regulations. The non-profit and corporate lobbying literature provides a basis of comparison to ask if colleges lobby like corporations, which have been successful lobbyists under challenging conditions. This study shows the connection between federal governmental funding and higher education lobbying by drawing on a newly-created database of 2,000 B.A-granting institutions of higher education from 2004-2014, and explores the rationales and tactics of higher education via interviews with 20 New York-based lobbyists and legislators and a sampling of 200 news stories from the 50 states. I find that for-profit college lobbying is slightly associated with Pell grant dependence and that non-profit college lobbying is strongly associated with federal research and development dependence. I also find that although lobbyists band together to advocate for large pots of funding to help equalize on-campus budgets, colleges break away into increasingly small coalitions as funding becomes more specific along the budget process. Colleges lobby in response to high-profile accountability measures but do so in ways distinct from corporations. The study adds detail to the emerging higher education lobbying literature, opens pathways for further exploration, and offers implications for scholars who study higher education and political science.
Field performance evaluation of soil-based cover systems to mitigate ARD for the closure of a potentially acid-generating tailings storage facility
Creators: name: Renken, Karin
name: Yanful, E. K.
name: Mchaina, David Mhina
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This paper summarizes field performance results of three engineered soil-based cover systems and one control system intended to mitigate potential acid rock drainage and metal leaching at a tailings disposal site. The field performance evaluation commenced in 2002 on the tailings beach of the Premier Gold Project (PGP) site near Stewart, British Columbia, Canada (~ 56˚05’N, 130˚00’W). Four 15 m by 15 m test plots were constructed using the barrier layers of either 1) a geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) Bentomat® ST, 2) 0.6 m of local sand and gravel plus 6% EnviroGel® 8 Wyoming sodium bentonite by eight, 3) 0.8-m loose till, or 4) no barrier (control system). Two years of monitoring results indicate that the barrier layers did not freeze which may be attributed to the insulating effect of approximately 2 m of snow pack at the site. Of the four systems studied, the sand-bentonite (S-B) system performed best when considering performance indicators such as percolation, interflow (lateral drainage above the barrier), and oxygen diffusion. Field and laboratory results indicated that the ‘as-is till’ layer would have to be more than 2 m thick to reduce oxygen diffusion adequately. Field oxygen concentrations and oxygen flux modeling indicated that the GCL system would have to be upgraded substantially (e.g. by incorporating another layer of GCL or a low permeability soil layer) to adequately reduce oxygen diffusion. Unit costs for the as-built S-B cover system without instrumentation were 1.9 and 2.0 times as expensive as the as-built till and the as-built GCL cover systems, respectively.
No scalar hair theorem for neutral Neumann stars: static massive scalar fields nonminimally coupled to gravity
Creators: name: Peng, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper, Hod proved that spherically symmetric Dirichlet reflecting compact stars cannot support static nonminimally coupled scalar fields. In the present paper, we study the validity of no hair theorems for compact stars with Neumann surface boundary conditions. We find that Neumann compact stars cannot support static massive scalar field hairs with a generic dimensionless nonminimal coupling parameter.
description: 7 pages
Commensurate-incommensurate transitions of quantum Hall stripe states in double-quantum-well systems
Creators: name: Cote, R.
name: Fertig, H. A.
name: Bourassa, J.
name: Bouchiha, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In higher Landau levels (N>0) and around filling factors nu =4N+1, a two-dimensional electron gas in a double-quantum-well system supports a stripe groundstate in which the electron density in each well is spatially modulated. When a parallel magnetic field is added in the plane of the wells, tunneling between the wells acts as a spatially rotating effective Zeeman field coupled to the ``pseudospins'' describing the well index of the electron states. For small parallel fields, these pseudospins follow this rotation, but at larger fields they do not, and a commensurate-incommensurate transition results. Working in the Hartree-Fock approximation, we show that the combination of stripes and commensuration in this system leads to a very rich phase diagram. The parallel magnetic field is responsible for oscillations in the tunneling matrix element that induce a complex sequence of transitions between commensurate and incommensurate liquid or stripe states. The homogeneous and stripe states we find can be distinguished by their collective excitations and tunneling I-V, which we compute within the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation.
description: 23 pages including 8 eps figures
The Seven at War from Thebes to Aleppo. On Two Performances at the Greek Theatre of Siracusa
Creators: name: Ugolini, Gherardo
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2019

description: Aeschylus’ The Seven Against Thebes, directed by Marco Baliani, and Euripides’ The Phoenician Women, directed by Valerio Binasco, were staged at the Greek theatre of Siracusa for the 53rd Festival del Teatro Greco from 6 May to 8 July 2017. Although the two plays deal with the same episodes of the Theban myth, that is, the siege of Thebes by the Argive army and the fratricidal conflict between Eteocles and Polynices, they adopt different dramaturgical, ethical, and political perspectives. Both stagings involved estranging and modernizing devices. Baliani succeeded in vividly rendering the motif of fear aroused by wartime violence, turning it into the leitmotiv of a production set within an archaic universe whose anthropologically-based values are cast as universal. The Phoenician Women turned out to be less convincing, since Binasco’s innovative choices, such as Eteocles’ ostentatious violence, the chorus of female refugees speaking with an Eastern European accent, and Oedipus’ disturbing presence on stage from the opening of the play, did not fulfil their dramaturgical potential coherently and homogeneously.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 3 No 2 (2017)
On Quantum Statistical Mechanics of a Schwarzschild Black Hole
Creators: name: Krasnov, Kirill V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum theory of geometry, developed recently in the framework of non-perturbative quantum gravity, is used in an attempt to explain thermodynamics of Schwarzschild black holes on the basis of a microscopical (quantum) description of the system. We work with the formulation of thermodynamics in which the black hole is enclosed by a spherical surface B and a macroscopic state of the system is specified by two parameters: the area of the boundary surface and a quasilocal energy contained within. To derive thermodynamical properties of the system from its microscopics we use the standard statistical mechanical method of Gibbs. Under a certain number of assumptions on the quantum behavior of the system, we find that its microscopic (quantum) states are described by states of quantum Chern-Simons theory defined by sets of points on B labelled with spins. The level of the Chern-Simons theory turns out to be proportional to the horizon area of black hole measured in Planck units. The statistical mechanical analysis turns out to be especially simple in the case when the entire interior of B is occupied by a black hole. We find in this case that the entropy contained within B, that is, the black hole entropy, is proportional to the horizon surface area.
description: Revtex, 14 pages, 1 figure, a shortened version to appear in Gen. Rel. and Grav
“La terra in palcoscenico”: Playing the Common Grounds of Aeschylus and Shakespeare
Creators: name: Nicholson, Eric
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2019

description: These director’s notes offer reflections on as well as an account of the theatre project carried out in Spring 2017, in Verona as part of a practice-based research on Aeschylus and Shakespeare. The project involved the preparation, rehearsal, and performance of an experimental hybrid script, bringing together scenes in the original English and in Italian translation from Shakespeare’s Richard II and Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes. The final production, entitled “Riccardo II in-contra i Sette contro Tebe”, was performed by a cast of mainly student and non-professional actors, and was then the object of discussion within a seminar on staging kingship and power in classical and early modern theatre.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 3 No 2 (2017)
Arab Arts Focus – Edinburgh: Review
Creators: name: Cormack, Raphael
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2019

description: In 2017, the Edinburgh Festival featured for the first time an Arab Arts Focus, which included ten separate performance pieces from across the Arab world. Soon, the critical responses began to focus more on the visa issues that the performers and crew had been having than on the performances themselves. However, for Arab artists at the moment (especially those performing in Europe), the work that they create is not detached from these issues of movement but, in fact, they resonate frequently through the pieces performed in this focus. Looking at six of the plays performed at the Festival, this article examines how artists engage with the idea of movement: from the refugee experience of the Palestinians and Syrians, to Youness Atbane’s use of movement to interrogate the figure of the ‘Arab artist’ and Hanane Hajj Ali’s fifty-year-old protagonist jogging through Beirut.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 3 No 2 (2017)
Amplitude Equations and Chemical Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Creators: name: Ipsen, M.
name: Hynne, F.
name: Soerensen, P. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper discusses the use of amplitude equations to describe the spatio-temporal dynamics of a chemical reaction-diffusion system based on an Oregonator model of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Sufficiently close to a supercritical Hopf bifurcation the reaction-diffusion equation can be approximated by a complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with parameters determined by the original equation at the point of operation considered. We illustrate the validity of this reduction by comparing numerical spiral wave solutions to the Oregonator reaction-diffusion equation with the corresponding solutions to the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation at finite distances from the bifurcation point. We also compare the solutions at a bifurcation point where the systems develop spatio-temporal chaos. We show that the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation represents the dynamical behavior of the reaction-diffusion equation remarkably well sufficiently far from the bifurcation point for experimental applications to be feasible.
description: 14 pages, 3 tables, 8 figures (please send email to mads.ipsen@uni-c.dk to get postscript file with graphics). To appear in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 7(9), 1997
Symplectic Dirac-Kähler Fields
Creators: name: Reuter, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the description of space-time fermions, Dirac-Kähler fields (inhomogeneous differential forms) provide an interesting alternative to the Dirac spinor fields. In this paper we develop a similar concept within the symplectic geometry of phase-spaces. Rather than on space-time, symplectic Dirac-Kähler fields can be defined on the classical phase-space of any Hamiltonian system. They are equivalent to an infinite family of metaplectic spinor fields, i.e. spinors of Sp(2N), in the same way an ordinary Dirac-Kähler field is equivalent to a (finite) mulitplet of Dirac spinors. The results are interpreted in the framework of the gauge theory formulation of quantum mechanics which was proposed recently. An intriguing analogy is found between the lattice fermion problem (species doubling) and the problem of quantization in general.
description: 86 pages, latex
A systematic study of the ground state properties of W, Os and Pt isotopes using HFB theory
Creators: name: Ashok, Nithu
name: Joseph, Antony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A systematic study of the ground state properties of transitional nuclei W, Os and Pt is conducted with the help of Skyrme Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory. Different Skyrme interactions are employed in the study. Two different bases, harmonic oscillator and transformed harmonic oscillator, are used in our investigation. 2n-separation energy, charge radii, neutron and proton rms radii, neutron skin thickness and deformation parameter have been estimated. The results obtained are in good agreement with the available experimental values.
Poecilopompilus interruptus subsp. dubitatus
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Poecilopompilus
Poecilopompilus interruptus
Poecilopompilus interruptus dubitatus (cameron)

description: Poecilopompilus interruptus dubitatus (Cameron)
(det. M. Buck, Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
 COSTA RICA: Guanacaste Province, Tilarán; 2 July 2018; A. Pereira. Host: Misumessus quinteroi (Edwards) (Thomisidae), adult or subadult female. The wasp stood over the paralyzed crab spider as it laid, dorsal side upward, on the ground (Fig. 6; Pereira 2018). This host record is listed as Poecilopompilus sp. in Kurczewski et al. (2020b).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (928) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6533498
Strategies for introducing sulfur atom in a sugar ring: synthesis of 5-thioaldopyranoses and their NMR data
Creators: name: Bujuq, Nader Al
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Thiosugars containing a sulfur atom as heteroatom in the sugar ring are highly interesting. In particular, 5-thioaldopyranoses have attracted considerable attention because they exhibit biologically important properties as the substrates for glycosidases also can be developed as potential therapeutical agents, such as antineoplastic, anti-diabetic, antiviral, and antithrombotic agents. In this review, we describe and discuss the advances in synthetic strategies for the preparation of 5-thioaldopyranoses (5-thio-d-hexoses, 5-thio-l-hexoses, 5-thio-d-pentoses and 5-thio-l-pentoses), as well as their spectroscopic NMR data as known to date. The study aims to give readers an easy understanding of thiosugars chemistry and provide a useful guide for carbohydrate chemists.
Noble Farmers: The Provincial Landowner in the Russian Cultural Imagination
Creators: Grigoryan, Bella
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Slavic literature

description: This dissertation examines a selectively multi-generic set of texts (mainstream periodicals, advice literature and fiction) that responded to a cultural need to provide normative models for the Russian nobleman's domestic life and self, following the 1762 Manifesto that freed the gentry from obligatory state service. The material suggests that a prominent strain in the Russian novelistic tradition that took the provincial landowner as a central object of representation developed in the course of a series of encounters between prescriptive and creative literatures. In chapter one, the cross-pollination between generically diverse segments of late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century print culture (namely, Andrei Bolotov's agricultural advice and Nikolai Novikov's satirical and Nikolai Karamzin's mainstream journalism) is read as crucial for the formation of a proto-novelistic prose idiom for the representation of the nobleman in the provinces. In chapter two, the growing professionalization and concomitant commercialization of Russian letters is treated as a prominent factor in the polemical relations between Faddei Bulgarin and Nikolai Gogol. I suggest that prescriptive literature about farming and journalistic responses to it are a significant component in the intertextual links between Bulgarin's Ivan Vyzhigin and Gogol's Dead Souls. In chapter three, Ivan Goncharov's oeuvre is read as a self-conscious attempt to arrive at the novelistic representation of a successful province-bound nobleman. His novelistic trilogy--A Common Story (Obyknovennaia istoriia), Oblomov and The Precipice (Obryv)--is situated vis-à-vis a growing corpus of Russian domestic advice literature to suggest that Goncharov's prose re-works the extra-literary material. In broad terms, the study may be viewed in two, mutually supplementary, ways as (1) a "thick description" of three moments in the formation of novelistic gentry selves understood to be always in dialogue with prescriptive texts that sought to provide a normative discourse about a productive noble private life in the provinces and (2) a re-appraisal of writers long considered central to the establishment of the Russian novelistic tradition, with especially close attention paid to how these foundational figures navigated a multi-generic field of cultural production.