cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stars Don't Eat Their Young Migrating Planets - Empirical Constraints On Planet Migration Halting Mechanisms
Creators: name: Plavchan, Peter
name: Bilinski, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Abridged: The discovery of "hot Jupiters" very close to their parent stars confirmed that Jovian planets migrate inward via several potential mechanisms. We present empirical constraints on planet migration halting mechanisms. We compute model density functions of close-in exoplanets in the orbital semi-major axis - stellar mass plane to represent planet migration that is halted via several mechanisms, including the interior 1:2 resonance with the magnetospheric disk truncation radius, the interior 1:2 resonance with the dust sublimation radius, and several scenarios for tidal halting. The models differ in the predicted power law dependence of the exoplanet orbital semi-major axis as a function stellar mass, and thus we also include a power law model with the exponent as a free parameter. We use a Bayesian analysis to assess the model success in reproducing empirical distributions of confirmed exoplanets and Kepler candidates that orbit interior to 0.1 AU. Our results confirm a correlation of the halting distance with stellar mass. Tidal halting provides the best fit to the empirical distribution of confirmed Jovian exoplanets at a statistically robust level, consistent with the Kozai mechanism and the spin-orbit misalignment of a substantial fraction of hot Jupiters. For Kepler candidates, which have a more restricted range in stellar mass compared to confirmed planets, we are unable to discern between the tidal dissipation and magnetospheric disk truncation braking mechanisms at a statistically significant level. The power law model favors exponents in the range of 0.38-0.9. This is larger than that predicted for tidal halting (0.23-0.33), which suggests that additional physics may be missing in the tidal halting theory.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Einfluss hydrophiler Penetrationsenhancer auf die Nanostruktur von Stratum corneum Lipidmodellen
Creators: name: Müller, Josefin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 615

description: Der Einsatz hydrophiler Penetrationsenhancer ermöglicht eine verbesserte Bioverfügbarkeit dermal und transdermal angewendeter Arzneistoffe. Der entsprechende Wirkmechanismus auf molekularer Ebene ist jedoch noch nicht vollständig aufgeklärt. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden zahlreiche Untersuchungen durchgeführt um Informationen über die Wechselwirkungen ausgewählter hydrophiler Penetrationsenhancer mit Stratum corneum Lipiden zu liefern. Dabei wurde der Einfluss der hydrophilen Penetrationsenhancer Wasser, Harnstoff, Taurin, Dimethylsulfoxid, Glycerol, Propylenglykol, 1,2- und 1,5-Pentandiol auf die verschiedenen Stratum corneum Lipidmodelle der Multilayer, Oligolayer, einzelnen festkörpergestützten Bilayer und Liposomen mit Hilfe von Infrarotspektroskopie, Neutronenreflektometrie, Fluoreszenzspektroskopie und Photonenkorrelationsspektroskopie untersucht. Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit liefern umfangreiche und neuartige Erkenntnisse bezüglich der Wirkmechanismen der untersuchten Enhancer.
description: The application of hydrophilic penetration enhancers enables an increased bioavailability of dermally and transdermally applied drugs. However, until now, the respective mode of action on a molecular scale is not fully understood. Within this thesis, several investigations were made to gain information about the interaction of specific hydrophilic penetration enhancers with stratum corneum lipids. In detail, the influence of the hydrophilic penetration enhancers water, urea, taurine, dimethyl sulfoxide, glycerol, propylene glycol, 1,2- and 1,5-pentandiol on the different stratum corneum lipid models of multilayer, oligolayer, solid supported single bilayer and liposomes has been investigated using infrared spectroscopy, neutron reflectivity, fluorescence spectroscopy and photon correlation spectroscopy. The results of this thesis provide detailed and innovative information about the mode of action of the used enhancers.
Additional file 5 of Identifying and understanding the contextual factors that shaped mid-implementation outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in organizations implementing mental health recovery innovations into services
Creators: name: Piat, Myra
name: Wainwright, Megan
name: Cherkas, Danielle
name: Leblanc, Sébastien
name: Sofouli, Eleni
name: Rivest, Marie-Pier
name: Albert, Hélène
name: Casey, Regina
name: O’Rourke, Joseph J.
name: Labonté, Lise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 5. Ratings for all CFIR constructs by innovation
Additional file 1 of Willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-accept of informal caregivers of dependent elderly people in Shanghai, China
Creators: name: Liu, Wenwei
name: Lyu, Tongzhou
name: Zhang, Xiaoyi
name: Yuan, Suwei
name: Zhang, Huimin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire. The questionnaire employed in the interviews with the informal caregivers
title: War Aims and War Aims Discussions
title: War Aims and War Aims Discussions
Creators: name: Soutou, Georges-Henri
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kriegsziel
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Causes

description: Despite what some believe, there is still a lot to say and learn about the First World War, particularly with regard to war aims. A lot of focus is currently placed on the cultural, social and psychological facets of the Great War, much more than on the traditional issue of war aims. Here, we will review the aims of the different parties and take into account the constant cross-over between political, ideological and economic goals – cross-over that can be found even in the Treaty of Versailles.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Synthesis of a peptide nucleic acid oligomer of a Janus heterocycle
Creators: name: Hasan, Syed
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This thesis describes the oligomerization of the Janus AT heterocycle on a peptide nucleic acid scaffold, a molecule that is capable of concurrently hydrogen bonding with adenine and thymine. An oligonucleotide incorporating this moiety should form sequence specific Watson-Crick based triplexes with DNA by strand invasion. Initially, the synthesis of a diamino Janus AT peptide nucleic acid monomer was attempted, but the monomer was too insoluble for solid phase synthesis. To curtail this issue, attempts were made to synthesize a more hydrophobic surrogate, wherein the exocyclic amines were masked. The synthesis of an undecamer was then undertaken, wherein the Janus monomer was alternated with a 6-methyluracil spacer. Lastly, a dodecamer of 6MU was synthesized to examine its biophysical properties in the context of base pairing with DNA.
Incorporare il fantastico: Marie Taglioni
Creators: name: Cervellati, Elena
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: L-ART/05 Discipline dello spettacolo

description: Una nuova idea di fantastico prende corpo nel momento in cui l'ideale romantico si concretizza sulle scene teatrali europee. Per la novità della sua interpretazione, Marie Taglioni incorpora questo ideale e costringe chi ne scrive a cercare un nuovo modo di descrivere la danza
Roles of microRNAs in Coxsackievirus B3 induced viral myocarditis
Creators: name: Ye, Xin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) induced viral myocarditis, characterized by inflammation and cell death in the myocardium, is one of the leading causes of sudden unexpected death in infants and young adults. Both direct virus- and immune-mediated injuries contribute to the damage in the infected organs. A clear understanding of the virus-induced host cell signaling alterations would be key to elucidating the pathogenesis of viral myocarditis and to improve therapeutic strategies. Recently discovered microRNAs (miRNAs) are small endogenous non-coding RNAs widely involved in gene regulation controlling developmental processes and disease pathogenesis including cardiac diseases and viral infections. In this dissertation, the main objective is to investigate the roles of miRNAs in CVB3 replication and pathogenesis of myocarditis. I hypothesize that 1) CVB3 infection alters host miRNA expression profiles to benefit its own replication; and 2) the dysregulated miRNAs contributes to the damage and dysfunction of cardiomyocytes. I used in vitro (cultured cells) and in vivo (mouse) models to explore the changes of host miRNAs’ expression during CVB3 infection. miRNA microarray and quantitative-reverse transcription-PCR (q-RT-PCR) revealed that miR-126, miR-203 and miR-21 were upregulated by CVB3 infection. Further studies on these three miRNAs demonstrated their unique roles in regulating viral replication and cellular pathology in the myocardium. miR-126 was induced by CVB3 infection through the ERK1/2-ETS1/2 signal pathway. I found that increased miR-126 in turn enhanced activation of ERK1/2 and degradation of β-catenin through targeting SPRED1, LRP6 and WRCH1. This targeting benefited CVB3 replication and promoted virus-induced cell death. miR-203 was upregulated by the activation of the PKC/AP-1 cascade during CVB3 infection. I showed that miR-203 targeted ZFP-148 and supported cell survival and growth, which provided favorable environment for CVB3 replication. I further conducted the first investigation on the role of miR-21 in cell-cell connections among cardiomyocytes during CVB3 infection. I showed that miR-21 upregulation induced desmin degradation and desmosome disorganization via ubiquitin-proteasome pathway by targeting YOD1 and that miR-21 directly targeted VCL and disrupts fascia adherens. Together, my findings have shed light on the host-virus interactions in signal transduction pathways and provided new therapeutic strategies against CVB3-induced heart diseases.
Determining the Surface-To-Bulk Progression in the Normal-State Electronic Structure of Sr2RuO4 by Angle-Resolved Photoemission and Density Functional Theory
Creators: name: Veenstra, C. N.
name: Zhu, Z. -H.
name: Ludbrook, B.
name: Capsoni, M.
name: Levy, G.
name: Nicolaou, A.
name: Rosen, J. A.
name: Comin, R.
name: Kittaka, S.
name: Maeno, Y.
name: Elfimov, I. S.
name: Damascelli, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In search of the potential realization of novel normal-state phases on the surface of Sr2RuO4 - those stemming from either topological bulk properties or the interplay between spin-orbit coupling (SO) and the broken symmetry of the surface - we revisit the electronic structure of the top-most layers by ARPES with improved data quality as well as ab-initio LDA slab calculations. We find that the current model of a single surface layer (\surd2x\surd2)R45° reconstruction does not explain all detected features. The observed depth-dependent signal degradation, together with the close quantitative agreement with LDA+SO slab calculations based on the LEED-determined surface crystal structure, reveal that (at a minimum) the sub-surface layer also undergoes a similar although weaker reconstruction. This points to a surface-to-bulk progression of the electronic states driven by structural instabilities, with no evidence for Dirac and Rashba-type states or surface magnetism.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Further information and PDF available at: http://www.phas.ubc.ca/~quantmat/ARPES/PUBLICATIONS/articles.html
title: Censorship
title: Censorship
Creators: name: Demm, Eberhard
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Zensur
subject: World War, 1914-1918
subject: Censorship

description: Censorship was an indispensable war weapon: its task was to keep the people in an atmosphere of utter ignorance and unshaken confidence in the authorities, and to allow their boundless indoctrination so that they would, despite terrible losses and privations, accept the necessity of holding on until the bitter end and the complete “knock out” (David Lloyd George) of the enemy. This article compares the organization of censorship and its limitations in the combatant countries, analyzes its methods, and cites the principal topics which were usually suppressed, not only in the media, but also in novels, entertainment, and in private correspondence. It also investigates the different reactions to censorship: self-censorship, accommodation, criticism, manoeuvres to outwit and circumvent it, and, last but not least, the way in which censorship was manipulated in order to discredit or even ruin political enemies.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Literature (Switzerland)
title: Literature (Switzerland)
Creators: name: Billeter, Nicole
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918, Motiv]
subject: Literatur
subject: Schweiz
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Switzerland

description: During the First World War, many authors from neighbouring countries who spoke out against the war and its enormous costs found exile in Switzerland. Given that Switzerland was torn between its German and French linguistic and cultural regions, these writers-in-exile were often regarded with suspicion and even spied upon by the Swiss authorities.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Zetkin, Clara
title: Zetkin, Clara
Creators: name: Morina, Christina
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Zetkin, Clara
subject: Zetkin, Klara, 1857-1933

description: Referred to as the “grandmother of German communism” at the time of her death in 1933 by the ''Manchester Guardian'', Clara Zetkin was a prominent feminist leader within the German social democratic movement and the Socialist International in the turbulent decades between the rise of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the 1880s and the seizure of power by Lenin’s Bolshevik Party at the end of World War I.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Manifold calculus and homotopy sheaves
Creators: name: de Brito, Pedro Boavida
name: Weiss, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Manifold calculus is a form of functor calculus concerned with functors from some category of manifolds to spaces. A weakness in the original formulation is that it is not continuous in the sense that it does not handle well the natural enrichments. In this paper, we correct this by defining an enriched version of manifold calculus which essentially extends the discrete setting. Along the way, we recast the Taylor tower as a tower of homotopy sheafifications. As a spin-off we obtain a natural connection to operads: the limit of the Taylor tower is a certain (derived) space of right module maps over the framed little discs operad.
description: 19 pages; added minor corrections and improvements
Virtual and augmented reality applications for Cultural Heritage
Creators: name: Garagnani, Simone
name: Manferdini, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: ICAR/17 Disegno

description: The purpose of this paper is to show the results of a research aimed at investigating the potential of digital technologies in order to provide instruments that allow to share information about the Cultural Heritage, which Museums and Institutions are called to preserve and promote.
Our project’s aim is finding the most suitable procedure to acquire archaeological artefacts, build their digital replica together with 3D printed prototypes and derive simplified models to be visualized through stereoscopic devices, allowing the simultaneous viewing of real and digital 3D data through an augmented reality environment, portable to mobile devices as well.
Fruizione digitale di reperti archeologici. L’esperienza del museo civico archeologico di Bologna.

Digital fruition of archeological finds. The experience at he archeological museum of Bologna.
Creators: name: Manferdini, Anna Maria
name: Garagnani, Simone
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: ICAR/17 Disegno

description: Il contributo presenta una serie di indagini avviate nell’ambito di una collaborazione tra il Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione Territoriale DAPT dell’Università degli Studi di Bologna e il Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna volte alla messa a punto di procedure per il rilievo e per la fruizione digitale di reperti archeologici. In particolare, il contributo illustra come le possibilità di fruizione del patrimonio storico-artistico possano essere ampliate grazie all’utilizzo di tecniche digitali in grado di innescare meccanismi percettivi multisensoriali e di coinvolgere attivamente gli utenti nella esplorazione dei contenuti presentati attraverso le collezioni.
Visualizzazioni immersive, realtà aumentata e rapporto tattile, oltre che visivo, con i reperti, contribuiscono a stabilire un canale comunicativo immediato e più vicino a utenti che utilizzano quotidianamente questi strumenti di comunicazione e di accesso alle informazioni.

This contribution presents a series of investigations undertaken thanks to the collaboration between the Department of Architecture and Territorial Planning of the University of Bologna and the Archaeological Museum of Bologna , aimed at finding a procedure for the 3d digital survey and exploration of archaeological finds. In particular, this paper shows how users can benefit from the use of digital technologies for the fruition of historical-artistic heritage. As a matter of fact, digital communication tools stimulate multisensory perception mechanisms and therefore allow to actively involve users in the exploration of contents presented through collections.
Immersive visualizations, augmented reality and both tactile and visual exploration of findings can ease the establishment of a more immediate and direct communication channel with users that generally communicate and access information using digital technologies and mediums.
Constraints on 6D Supergravity Theories with Abelian Gauge Symmetry
Creators: name: Park, Daniel S.
name: Taylor, Washington
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study six-dimensional N=(1,0) supergravity theories with abelian, as well as non-abelian, gauge group factors. We show that for theories with fewer than nine tensor multiplets, the number of possible combinations of gauge groups - including abelian factors - and non-abelian matter representations is finite. We also identify infinite families of theories with distinct U(1) charges that cannot be ruled out using known quantum consistency conditions, though only a finite subset of these can arise from known string constructions.
description: 49 pages, latex; v2: minor corrections, references added; v3: minor corrections
title: Bosnian Crisis
title: Bosnian Crisis
Creators: name: Peters, Marc Stefan
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Bosnische Annexionskrise
subject: Bosnia and Hercegovina--History--1878-1918

description: In the narrow sense, the so-called “Bosnian Crisis” (or “Annexation Crisis”) of 1908 and 1909 was a political conflict between Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire caused by the (formal) incorporation of Bosnia and Herzegovina into the territory of the Dual Monarchy. In a broader sense, the “crisis” stands for the impact of this incorporation on the most important intergovernmental relations in Europe on the eve of World War I.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Prostitution
title: Prostitution
Creators: name: Steward, Journey
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Prostitution
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918
subject: Prostitution

description: Prostitution was considered among the most important societal problems facing civilian-military authorities in belligerent countries during World War I. Despite growing military control of the civilian realm in many places, the social upheaval caused by the war provided more space – including barracks and military parade grounds – for casual, non-marital, and sometimes commercial, sexual transactions.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Totalization of simplicial homotopy types
Creators: name: Ogle, Crichton
name: Salch, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We identify the obstructions for the functoriality and the uniqueness of the totalization functor, (partially) defined on the category of simplicial objects in the homotopy category of a stable model category, and we use a result from the cyclic homology of group algebras to show they can be non-zero.
description: 15 pages. The current version extends the constructions and results of the previous version to the homotopy category of an arbitrary stable model category
Grassmann secants and linear systems of tensors
Creators: name: Ballico, Edoardo
name: Bernardi, Alessandra
name: Catalisano, Maria Virgina
name: Chiantini, Luca
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: MAT/03 Geometria

description: For any irreducible non-degenerate variety $X\subset \mathbb{P}^r$, we relate the dimension of the $s$-th secant varieties of the Segre embedding of $\mathbb{P}^k\times X$ to the dimension of the $(k,s)$-Grassmann secant variety $GS_X(k,s)$ of $X$. We also give a criterion for the $s$-identifiability of $X$.
title: Intelligence and Espionage (Spain)
title: Intelligence and Espionage (Spain)
Creators: name: García Sanz, Carolina
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Spanien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Spionage
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Spain
subject: Secret service

description: This article deals with operations carried out by belligerent secret services in Spain, challenging the declaration of neutrality issued by Madrid in August 1914. Its primary aim is to internationalize the Spanish experience as a peripheral but far-reaching stage for a secret war, not always easy to track down in the historiography of the First World War. The article will explore diverse schemes and motivations for creating intelligence organizations and will give examples of foreign intelligence communities’ mobilisation efforts against a background of rivalry and cooperation in Spain.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Expansion formulae for local Lévy models
Creators: name: Pagliarani, Stefano
name: Pascucci, Andrea
name: Riga, Candia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: MAT/05 Analisi matematica
MAT/06 Probabilità e statistica matematica
SECS-S/06 Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie

description: We propose a novel method for the analytical approximation in local volatility models with Lévy jumps. In the case of Gaussian jumps, we provide an explicit approximation of the transition density of the underlying process by a heat kernel expansion: the approximation is derived in two ways, using PIDE techniques and working in the Fourier space. Our second and main result is an expansion of the characteristic function for a local volatility model with general Lévy jumps. Combined with standard Fourier methods, such an expansion allows to obtain efficient and accurate pricing formulae. Numerical tests confirm the effectiveness of the method.
Essential normality and the decomposability of homogeneous submodules
Creators: name: Kennedy, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A13, 47A20, 47A99, 14Q99, 12Y05

description: We establish the essential normality of a large new class of homogeneous submodules of the finite rank d-shift Hilbert module. The main idea is a notion of essential decomposability that determines when an arbitrary submodule can be decomposed into the sum of essentially normal submodules. We prove that every essentially decomposable submodule is essentially normal, and using ideas from convex geometry, we introduce methods for establishing that a submodule is essentially decomposable. It turns out that many homogeneous submodules of the finite rank d-shift Hilbert module have this property. We prove that many of the submodules considered by other authors are essentially decomposable, and in addition establish the essential decomposability of a large new class of homogeneous submodules. Our results support Arveson's conjecture that every homogeneous submodule of the finite rank d-shift Hilbert module is essentially normal.
description: 21 pages; major revision
Colonialism, Children’s Literature and Translation. The Colonial Gaze: A reading of the text and illustrations in Italian versions of The Jungle Books
Creators: name: Rudvin, Mette
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: L-LIN/12 Lingua e traduzione - Lingua inglese

description: This paper investigates if and how colonialist tropes and Victorian values represented in Victorian children’s literature have survived to the present day in Italian translations through revisions, abridgements and illustrations in a text by one of the most representative Victorian authors, Rudyard Kipling, a paragon of the Empire-building period. The paper examines his celebrated The Jungle Books published in 1894 and 1895.

The Jungle Books were printed in two volumes containing not only the celebrated Mowgli stories, but also other short stories such as “The White Seal” and “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”. This paper will be looking exclusively at the series of stories in which Mowgli is the protagonist, and only in the volumes catalogued in the children’s section of libraries, examining how interpersonal relations among the characters, deeply embedded in Kipling’s Victorian convictions, are portrayed. These aspects relate particularly to hierarchy, authority, ‘the Law of the Jungle’, hunting and nature. The paper briefly touches upon how these issues relate to Kipling’s own personal life and his rapport with India, and how they relate to the concept of children’s literature as a modern western literary construction.

By examining a range of Italian translations, the paper then questions to what degree these aspects of Kipling’s world view are maintained in translation: if and when they are jettisoned and  what this tells us about the circumstances, the agents and the process of translation. In order to examine how the core values of the colonialist period are portrayed in translations of The Jungle Books, the paper will first discuss how these emerge in the original text, especially through the interpersonal relations between Mowgli and the jungle animals. The paper then moves on to examine a sample of Italian translations to see if and how the colonialist subtext(s) are maintained in the translated text and in the accompanying illustrations. Questions that emerge are: ‘How is the ideological dimension in the source text managed in translation, given the powerful educational and informative function and nature of books for children?’ ‘Is the colonial subtext mitigated or emphasized by translators and publishers?’ The paper will attempt to suggest answers to some of these questions.
Quality, Distance and Trade: A Strategic Approach
Creators: name: Minniti, Antonio
name: Bacchiega, Emanuele
name: Palestini, Arsen
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: This paper contributes to the literature on distance and quality by identifying a force con- tributing to explain the observed increase of the quality of shipped goods with the distance of their destination market. This force originates from the influence of distance on firms’ strate- gic behavior when the quality level of goods is a choice variable for them, and complements the ones already proposed in the literature. Our approach differs from the extant literature because it does not rely on technology or preference/income differentials to identify the deter- minants and drivers of trade flows. Moreover, it allows to clearly disentangle between the price setting and quality choice of firms. We find that distance has an unambiguously positive effect on the average quality of traded goods. Our results suit the empirical evidence on distance and quality and contribute to the analysis of the determinants of firms’ trade performance.
Bellman inequality for Hilbert space operators
Creators: name: Morassaei, A.
name: Mirzapour, F.
name: Moslehian, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A42, 46L05, 47A63, 47A30

description: We establish some operator versions of Bellman's inequality. In particular, we prove that if $Φ: \mathbb{B}(\mathscr{H}) \to \mathbb{B}(\mathscr{K})$ is a unital positive linear map, $A,B \in \mathbb{B}(\mathscr{H})$ are contractions, $p>1$ and $0 \leq λ\leq 1$, then {eqnarray*} \big(Φ(I_\mathscr{H}-A\nabla_λB)\big)^{1/p}\geΦ\big((I_\mathscr{H}-A)^{1/p}\nabla_λ(I_\mathscr{H}-B)^{1/p}\big). {eqnarray*}
description: 6 pages, minor corrections
Resonant X-Ray Scattering Measurements of a Spatial Modulation of the Cu 3d and O 2p Energies in Stripe-Ordered Cuprate Superconductors
Creators: name: Achkar, A. J.
name: He, F.
name: Sutarto, R.
name: Geck, J.
name: Zhang, H.
name: Kim, Y. -J.
name: Hawthorn, D. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A prevailing description of the stripe phase in underdoped cuprate superconductors is that the charge carriers (holes) phase segregate on a microscopic scale into hole rich and hole poor regions. We report resonant elastic x-ray scattering measurements of stripe-ordered La$_{1.475}$Nd$_{0.4}$Sr$_{0.125}$CuO$_4$ at the Cu $L$ and O $K$ absorption edges that identify an additional feature of stripe order. Analysis of the energy dependence of the scattering intensity reveals that the dominant signature of the stripe order is a spatial modulation in the energies of Cu 3d and O 2p states rather than the large modulation of the charge density (valence) envisioned in the common stripe paradigm. These energy shifts are interpreted as a spatial modulation of the electronic structure and may point to a valence-bond-solid interpretation of the stripe phase.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
110-GHz High-gain Flip-chip InP HEMT Amplifier
with Resin Encapsulation on an Organic Substrate
Creators: name: Masuda, Satoshi
name: Kira, Hidehiko
name: Hirose, Tatsuya
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2004
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: A high-gain amplifier monolithic microwave
integrated circuit (MMIC) was developed using InP HEMT
technology with inverted microstrip lines. The six-stage
amplifier demonstrated a gain of 30 dB at 110 GHz. We also
fabricated a resin-sealed flip-chip MMIC on a highly
isolated cost-effective glass-epoxy substrate, achieving a
gain of 28 dB at 110 GHz. To the best of our knowledge, this
is the highest gain in the W-band for a flip-chip MMIC
sealed with resin.
Tuning in Gender Wayang : voices, concepts, and analysis
Creators: name: Kartawan, I Made
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This thesis brings light to gender wayang’s (metallophone ensemble) unique and complex tuning system, which has yet to be explored thoroughly in academic circles. In the thesis I examine the tuning of gender wayang instruments through cultural and scientific analysis of the four Balinese tuning concepts ulu suara (pitch), sruti (interval), angkep- angkepan (octave), and ombak (waves). The cultural analysis focuses on the ways that pande gong (metalsmiths), tukang laras (gamelan tuners), juru gender (gender wayang musicians), and dalang (puppeteers) conceptualize the tuning of gender wayang instruments. I juxtapose their perspectives against measurements of nine sets of gender wayang instruments that are spread throughout four of Bali’s nine regencies—Gianyar (Central Bali), Tabanan (West Bali), Badung (South Bali), and Buleleng (North Bali)—and then analyze the measurements with particular attention focused on the four concepts. Following the discussion of these concepts, and informed by them, I investigate tuning levels and their connection to dalang. The thesis also describes gender wayang instrument construction in detail. This provides the reader with suitable background information about the relationship between tukang laras and pande gong.
High-stability time-domain balanced homodyne detector for ultrafast optical pulse applications
Creators: name: Cooper, Merlin
name: Söller, Christoph
name: Smith, Brian J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-noise, efficient, phase-sensitive time-domain optical detection is essential for foundational tests of quantum physics based on optical quantum states and the realization of numerous applications ranging from quantum key distribution to coherent classical telecommunications. Stability, bandwidth, efficiency, and signal-to-noise ratio are crucial performance parameters for effective detector operation. Here we present a high-bandwidth, low-noise, ultra-stable time-domain coherent measurement scheme based on balanced homodyne detection ideally suited to characterization of quantum and classical light fields in well-defined ultrashort optical pulse modes.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Minimal external representations of tropical polyhedra
Creators: name: Allamigeon, Xavier
name: Katz, Ricardo D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14T05, 52B05, 52A01

description: Tropical polyhedra are known to be representable externally, as intersections of finitely many tropical half-spaces. However, unlike in the classical case, the extreme rays of their polar cones provide external representations containing in general superfluous half-spaces. In this paper, we prove that any tropical polyhedral cone in R^n (also known as "tropical polytope" in the literature) admits an essentially unique minimal external representation. The result is obtained by establishing a (partial) anti-exchange property of half-spaces. Moreover, we show that the apices of the half-spaces appearing in such non-redundant external representations are vertices of the cell complex associated with the polyhedral cone. We also establish a necessary condition for a vertex of this cell complex to be the apex of a non-redundant half-space. It is shown that this condition is sufficient for a dense class of polyhedral cones having "generic extremities".
description: v1: 32 pages, 10 figures; v2: minor revision, 34 pages, 10 figures
The effects of marketing activities on fast moving consumer good purchases: the case of yoghurt Italian market
Creators: name: Brasini, Sergio
name: Freo, Marzia
name: Tassinari, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2005
Subjects: SECS-S/03 Statistica economica

description: This paper examines whether sales promotions effectiveness depends upon the consumer’s brand loyalty and her buying behaviour and whether consumer’s behavioural characteristics in term of purchase frequency and level affect the response to promotional activities and moderate the effect of brand loyalty during the consumer choice process. Different specifications for the utility function, exploiting information on selling price, promotional activities such as displays usage, ad features in the store, 3x2 and discount, and differently brand loyalty measures have been estimated into a discrete choice framework, that is into the rational brand choice paradigm, paying attention to their effects on individuals’ probabilities to choose the specific brand during each purchase occasion. The application is run on a ACNielsen dataset of Italian households consumer panel, observed to buy at least two yoghurt packages during a year, matched to store panel data with respect to quantities, prices and promotions.
The targum (1870:Mar.)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1870

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Is Quasar Optical Variability a Damped Random Walk?
Creators: name: Zu, Ying
name: Kochanek, C. S.
name: Kozłowski, Szymon
name: Udalski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The damped random walk (DRW) model is increasingly used to model the variability in quasar optical light curves, but it is still uncertain whether the DRW model provides an adequate description of quasar optical variability across all time scales. Using a sample of OGLE quasar light curves, we consider four modifications to the DRW model by introducing additional parameters into the covariance function to search for deviations from the DRW model on both short and long time scales. We find good agreement with the DRW model on time scales that are well sampled by the data (from a month to a few years), possibly with some intrinsic scatter in the additional parameters, but this conclusion depends on the statistical test employed and is sensitive to whether the estimates of the photometric errors are correct to within ~10%. On very short time scales (below a few months), we see some evidence of the existence of a cutoff below which the correlation is stronger than the DRW model, echoing the recent finding of Mushotzky et al. (2011) using quasar light curves from Kepler. On very long time scales (> a few years), the light curves do not constrain models well, but are consistent with the DRW model.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, ApJ Accepted. For a brief video explaining the key result of this paper, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_UzzHuLczw, or http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzUzMDAwMTQ0.html in countries where YouTube is not accessible
A Medium-Power Low-Noise Amplifier For X-Band
Applications
Creators: name: Giannini, F.
name: Limiti, E.
name: Serino, A.
name: Dainelli, V.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2004
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: A monolithic front-end amplifier for X-band
radar applications has been developed utilising conventional
low noise GaAs technology. The application requires low
noise figure, high output power, good input and output
return loss, high gain and reduced chip area. To
simultaneously fulfil such conflicting requirements, proper
design methods have been adopted. Measured results from
8.5 to 9.6 GHz demonstrate a noise figure lower than 1.5 dB,
a small-signal gain of 29 dB, input and output return loss
over 20 dB, with an associated output power at -1 dB gain
compression in excess of 17 dBm.
Meeting the Needs of Cellular Dual-Mode
(EGPRS/3G) Power Amplifiers with a
Unique J-PHEMT Process and Novel
Control Architecture
Creators: name: Clifton, J. C.
name: Albasha, L.
name: Lawrenson, A.
name: Eaton, A.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2004
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: Based upon a unique Junction-PHEMT
device, a novel method of providing high efficiency PA
power control for variable envelope modulation schemes is
demonstrated for EDGE and WCDMA. The method of
control allows for substantially higher efficiency levels
under typical handset operating conditions than those of
conventional linear power amplifiers, on a par with polar
loop solutions, whilst avoiding the necessity for complex
control loops. An immediate benefit of the approach
includes the ability to add EDGE front-end capability to a
GSM handset without incurring a significant size or
component cost impact. Furthermore, the method of control
aids the future prospect of single transmit strip multi-mode
configurations (GSM/EDGE/WCDMA) in order to achieve
considerable size and cost advantages.
Carrier’s transport mechanisms investigations in
AlGaN/GaN HEMT thanks to physical modelling and
low frequency noise measurements
Creators: name: Soubercaze-Pun, G.
name: Tartarin, J.G.
name: Bary, L.
name: Delage, S. L.
name: Plana, R.
name: Graffeuil, J.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2004
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: This paper deals with the carrier’s transport
mode involved in AlGaN/GaN HEMT grown on sapphire
substrate according to biasing conditions. Low frequency
noise measurements on the drain current source are found
to be closely related to the path of the carriers occurring in
the two dimensions electron gas (2DEG) and in the AlGaN
layer: thus a correlation is found between the 1/f γ
frequency index γ and the biasing condition of the device.
Physical modelling is used in order to corroborate the γ
dependence with the transport mechanism of the carriers,
thanks to DC simulations and energetic band diagrams
analysis.
Quantum quenches in one-dimensional gapless systems: Does bosonization work?
Creators: name: Coira, Emanuele
name: Becca, Federico
name: Parola, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comparison between the bosonization results for quantum quenches and exact diagonalizations in microscopic models of interacting spinless fermions in a one-dimensional lattice. We show that important features are missed by the bosonization technique, which predicts the persistence of long-wavelength critical properties in the long-time evolution. Instead, numerical analysis provides puzzling evidences: while the momentum distribution appears to be consistent with the presence of a singularity at $k_F$, density-density correlations at small momenta clearly display a thermal-like behavior, namely ${\bar{N}}_q \simeq {\rm const}$ (where the overbar indicates the long-time average). This feature at small momenta is preserved in presence of an interaction term that breaks integrability, together with a rounding of the singularities at finite $q$'s, showing that the bosonization approach is not able to represent the time evolution of generic one-dimensional models after a quantum quench.
description: published version
Afterglow Model for the Radio Emission from the Jetted Tidal Disruption Candidate Swift J1644+57
Creators: name: Metzger, Brian D.
name: Giannios, Dimitrios
name: Mimica, Petar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent transient event Swift J1644+57 has been interpreted as emission from a collimated relativistic jet, powered by the sudden onset of accretion onto a supermassive black hole following the tidal disruption of a star. Here we model the radio-microwave emission as synchrotron radiation produced by the shock interaction between the jet and the gaseous circumnuclear medium (CNM). At early times after the onset of the jet (t < 5-10 days) a reverse shock propagates through and decelerates the ejecta, while at later times the outflow approaches the Blandford-McKee self-similar evolution (possibly modified by additional late energy injection). The achromatic break in the radio light curve of J1644+57 is naturally explained as the transition between these phases. We show that the temporal indices of the pre- and post-break light curve are consistent with those predicted if the CNM has a wind-type radial density profile n ~ 1/r^2. The observed synchrotron frequencies and self-absorbed flux constrain the fraction of the post-shock thermal energy in relativistic electrons epsilon_e ~ 0.03-0.1; the CNM density at 1e18 cm ~ 1-10 1/cm^3; and the initial Lorentz factor Gamma_j ~ 10-20 and opening angle theta_j ~ (0.1-1)Gamma_j^(-1) ~ 0.01-0.1 of the jet. Radio modeling thus provides robust independent evidence for a narrowly collimated outflow. Extending our model to the future evolution of J1644+57, we predict that the radio flux at low frequencies (
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, now accepted to MNRAS