cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Peltoperlidae Claassen 1931
Creators: name: Grubbs, Scott A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Peltoperlidae

description: Family Peltoperlidae
 Tallaperla cornelia (Needham & Smith)
 T. laurie (Ricker)
 T. maria (Needham & Smith)
description: Published as part of Grubbs, Scott A., 2011, A Review Of Stonefly (Insecta; Plecoptera) Taxonomic Research In Alabama, With New State Records And An Updated Checklist, pp. 24-30 in Illiesia 7 (2) on page 29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760293
Microstructure and velocity fluctuations in sheared suspensions
Creators: name: Drazer, G.
name: Koplik, J.
name: Khusid, B.
name: Acrivos, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The velocity fluctuations present in macroscopically homogeneous suspensions of neutrally buoyant, non-Brownian spheres undergoing simple shear flow, and their dependence on the microstructure developed by the suspensions, are investigated in the limit of vanishingly small Reynolds numbers using Stokesian dynamics simulations. We show that, in the dilute limit, the standard deviation of the velocity fluctuations is proportional to the volume fraction, in both the transverse and the flow directions, and that a theoretical prediction, which considers only for the hydrodynamic interactions between isolated pairs of spheres, is in good agreement with the numerical results at low concentrations. We also simulate the velocity fluctuations that would result from a random hard-sphere distribution of spheres in simple shear flow, and thereby investigate the effects of the microstructure on the velocity fluctuations. Analogous results are discussed for the fluctuations in the angular velocity of the suspended spheres. In addition, we present the probability density functions for all the linear and angular velocity components, and for three different concentrations, showing a transition from a Gaussian to an Exponential and finally to a Stretched Exponential functional form as the volume fraction is decreased. We also show that, although the pair distribution function recovers its fore-aft symmetry in dilute suspensions, it remains anisotropic and that this anisotropy can be accurately described by assuming the complete absence of any permanent doublets of spheres. We finally present a simple correction to the analysis of laser-Doppler velocimetry measurements.
description: Submitted to Journal of Fluid Mechanics
An analysis of sex equity/inequity in teacher-child interaction in day care classrooms
Creators: name: Murphy, Sharon T.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research investigated the existence and nature of the differential treatment of boys and girls in day care teacher-child classroom interaction. Using the INTERSECT Observation Form, the study sought to determine the type, amount, and distribution of interaction that takes place between a male or female teacher and male and female children in day care classrooms. The study sample consisted of 28 teachers--14 male and 14 female teachers in licensed day care centers located in an urban setting and their 268 students--134 boys and 134 girls. The oldest toddler class (2-3 years old) and/or preschool class (3-4 years old) for each teacher was observed twice over a three week interval. Teachers in day care classrooms most frequently employed praise (36 percent of the total interaction in classrooms with female teachers and 29 percent of the total interaction in classrooms with male teachers) when giving feedback to the children. The second most prevalent type of feedback was given remediation (26 percent of the total interaction in classrooms with male teachers and 25 percent of the total interaction in classrooms with female teachers). Acceptance and criticism remarks were seldom employed by female and male teachers alike when responding to the children. Boys engaged in more interactions with their teachers (male and female) than the girls, were criticized more than the girls for misbehavior, and were remediated more than the girls for inappropriate behavior. The girls and boys self-segregated on the basis of gender in their selection of classroom activities, seating arrangements, and play groups. The children tended to sit beside their friends who were usually of the same sex. This study concluded that (1) teachers in day care classrooms interact with boys and girls differently, (2) the differential treatment of boys and girls exists in the type, amount, and distribution of interaction between teachers and children in day care classrooms, and (3) teachers in day care classrooms interact with children in many of the same ways and display many of the same sex differences as teachers in preschool, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary classrooms.
Ultrafast magnetization dynamics in half-metallic Co$_2$FeAl Heusler alloy
Creators: name: Malik, R. S.
name: Delczeg-Czirjak, E. K.
name: Thonig, D.
name: Knut, R.
name: Vaskivskyi, I.
name: Gupta, R.
name: Jana, S.
name: Stefanuik, R.
name: Kvashnin, Y. O.
name: Husain, S.
name: Kumar, A.
name: Svedlindh, P.
name: Söderström, J.
name: Eriksson, O.
name: Karis, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on optically induced, ultrafast magnetization dynamics in the Heusler alloy $\mathrm{Co_{2}FeAl}$, probed by time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect. Experimental results are compared to results from electronic structure theory and atomistic spin-dynamics simulations. Experimentally, we find that the demagnetization time ($τ_{M}$) in films of $\mathrm{Co_{2}FeAl}$ is almost independent of varying structural order, and that it is similar to that in elemental 3d ferromagnets. In contrast, the slower process of magnetization recovery, specified by $τ_{R}$, is found to occur on picosecond time scales, and is demonstrated to correlate strongly with the Gilbert damping parameter ($α$). Our results show that $\mathrm{Co_{2}FeAl}$ is unique, in that it is the first material that clearly demonstrates the importance of the damping parameter in the remagnetization process. Based on these results we argue that for $\mathrm{Co_{2}FeAl}$ the remagnetization process is dominated by magnon dynamics, something which might have general applicability.
Activities of the Operating Room, December 1944
Creators: name: Bradburn, George Burmell, 1908-1968
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1945
Subjects: subject: World War II
subject: 12th General Hospital
subject: Surgery
subject: Surgical Procedures, Operative
subject: Hospitals, Military
subject: Anesthesia
subject: Wounds and Injuries
subject: Livorno (Italy)
subject: Wounds and Injuries/therapy

description: This monthly report consists of tables that note the number of specific types of surgeries that the 12th General Hospital Unit performed in December 1944.
An analysis of sex equity/inequity in teacher-child interaction in day care classrooms
Creators: name: Murphy, Sharon T.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: This research investigated the existence and nature of the differential treatment of boys and girls in day care teacher-child classroom interaction. Using the INTERSECT Observation Form, the study sought to determine the type, amount, and distribution of interaction that takes place between a male or female teacher and male and female children in day care classrooms. The study sample consisted of 28 teachers--14 male and 14 female teachers in licensed day care centers located in an urban setting and their 268 students--134 boys and 134 girls. The oldest toddler class (2-3 years old) and/or preschool class (3-4 years old) for each teacher was observed twice over a three week interval. Teachers in day care classrooms most frequently employed praise (36 percent of the total interaction in classrooms with female teachers and 29 percent of the total interaction in classrooms with male teachers) when giving feedback to the children. The second most prevalent type of feedback was given remediation (26 percent of the total interaction in classrooms with male teachers and 25 percent of the total interaction in classrooms with female teachers). Acceptance and criticism remarks were seldom employed by female and male teachers alike when responding to the children. Boys engaged in more interactions with their teachers (male and female) than the girls, were criticized more than the girls for misbehavior, and were remediated more than the girls for inappropriate behavior. The girls and boys self-segregated on the basis of gender in their selection of classroom activities, seating arrangements, and play groups. The children tended to sit beside their friends who were usually of the same sex. This study concluded that (1) teachers in day care classrooms interact with boys and girls differently, (2) the differential treatment of boys and girls exists in the type, amount, and distribution of interaction between teachers and children in day care classrooms, and (3) teachers in day care classrooms interact with children in many of the same ways and display many of the same sex differences as teachers in preschool, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary classrooms.
Baryon Decuplet Masses From the Viewpoint of q-Equidistance
Creators: name: Gavrilik, A. M.
name: Kachurik, I. I.
name: Tertychnyj, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Masses of baryons {3/2}^+ are calculated on the base of representations of dynamical "pseudounitary" q-deformed algebra u(4,1)_q which provides necessary breaking of the 4-flavor symmetry realized by the assumed q-algebra su(4)_q. It is demonstrated that, contrary to the case of su(3)_q octet baryons {1/2}^+, one and the same q-analog of mass relation for baryons {3/2}^+ from decuplet embedded into 20-plet of su(4)_q follows from evaluations within all the different admissible "dynamical" representations.
description: 9 pages, Tex; An old paper posted for archival purposes (the parameter q, involved in baryon mass relation, was connected with the Cabibbo angle in subsequent papers, e.g., hep-ph/0103325)
The project of modernity in Iran, 1850 to 1900: A reinterpretation
Creators: name: Rokni, Mitra
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study is concerned with developing an understanding and a reinterpretation of the project of modernity in Iran in the second half of the nineteenth century. The study addresses the mode of transmission and utilization of the European conceptual framework relating to the project of modernity by Iranian intellectuals. Hence, the theoretical portion of this study involves a comparative study of the advent of the projects of modernity in Europe and Iran. Two main branches of modernism in Iran are distinguished, Islamic and secular; represented, by Sayyid Jamal al-Din Asadabadi and Mirza Malkum Khan respectively. The thesis is based on an interpretative analysis of the proposals and ideas for reform and social change, which were expressed in correspondences and essays by these two modernists, specifically, and a few other intellectuals of the period under study. The focus is on the content of their modern projects and the ways in which they mediated their ideas in their political practice. The thesis proposed here is that although the projects of modernity, in the constitutional movement, was in part successful in establishing the basis for a modern Iran, it lacked two of the fundamental elements of modernism in the West: (1) carrying out a successful dialogue with one's own past (immanent criticism) in order to develop a modern secular rationality; and (2) establishing a modern rational state based on a complete separation of religion and state. It is argued that the attempt to uncritically adapt the modern Western concepts and ideals to the traditional system has been one of the fundamental barriers to the establishment of a secular political thought in Iran. This adaptation has taken place by utilizing an Islamic rhetoric to express the demands of modern social and cultural conditions. Therefore, this thesis concludes that, contrary to the commonly held view, the secularization of social thought in Iran did not effectively take place in the constitutional movement, and that the unfinished project of modernity remains the fundamental problematic of the Iranian society.
Search for long-lived, massive particles in events with a displaced vertex and a muon with large impact parameter in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for long-lived particles decaying into hadrons and at least one muon is presented. The analysis selects events that pass a muon or missing-transverse-momentum trigger and contain a displaced muon track and a displaced vertex. The analyzed dataset of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV was collected with the ATLAS detector and corresponds to 136 fb$^{-1}$. The search employs dedicated reconstruction techniques that significantly increase the sensitivity to long-lived particle decays that occur in the ATLAS inner detector. Background estimates for Standard Model processes and instrumental effects are extracted from data. The observed event yields are compatible with those expected from background processes. The results are presented as limits at 95% confidence level on model-independent cross sections for processes beyond the Standard Model, and interpreted as exclusion limits in scenarios with pair-production of long-lived top squarks that decay via a small $R$-parity-violating coupling into a quark and a muon. Top squarks with masses up to 1.7 TeV are excluded for a lifetime of 0.1 ns, and masses below 1.3 TeV are excluded for lifetimes between 0.01 ns and 30 ns.
description: 43 pages in total, author list starts on page 27, 8 figures, 6 tables, published in Phys. Rev. D 102, 032006 (2020). All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/SUSY-2018-33
Chicago Area Medical Archivists Medical History Symposium (2023)
Creators: name: Chicago Area Medical Archivists
Publisher: name: Prism. Galter Health Sciences Library. Northwestern University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: History of Medicine
subject: CAMA
subject: Symposium
subject: archives
subject: Libraries, Medical
subject: Program

description: Program of the Chicago Area Medical Archivists Medical History Symposium held virtually on Thursday, November 2, 2023.  A program note: George Krupkin, a student researcher at Shorefront Legacy Center, spoke in place of Laurice Bell.
Results_MPC_Sindy.zip
Creators: name: Guevara, Bryan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400105
subject: Flight dynamics

description: This paper presents a comprehensive approach to nonlinear dynamics identification for UAVs using a combination of data-driven techniques and theoretical modeling. Two key methodologies are explored: Proportional-Derivative (PD) approximation and Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy). The UAV dynamics are first modeled using the Euler-Lagrange formulation, providing a set of generalized coordinates. However, platform constraints limit the control inputs to attitude angles, and linear and angular velocities along the z-axis. To accommodate these limitations, thrust and torque inputs are approximated using a PD controller, serving as the foundation for nonlinear system identification. In parallel, SINDy, a data-driven method, is employed to derive a compact and interpretable model of the UAV dynamics from experimental data. Both identified models are then integrated into a Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for accurate trajectory tracking, where model accuracy, informed by data-driven insights, plays a critical role in optimizing control performance. This fusion of data-driven approaches and theoretical modeling enhances the system's robustness and adaptability in real-world conditions, offering a detailed analysis of the UAV's dynamic behavior.
Haplotype network code
Creators: name: Selle, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 10401 Applied Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60412 Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: R code and example data set to simulate from and fit the haplotype network model
The project of modernity in Iran, 1850 to 1900: A reinterpretation
Creators: name: Rokni, Mitra
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: This study is concerned with developing an understanding and a reinterpretation of the project of modernity in Iran in the second half of the nineteenth century. The study addresses the mode of transmission and utilization of the European conceptual framework relating to the project of modernity by Iranian intellectuals. Hence, the theoretical portion of this study involves a comparative study of the advent of the projects of modernity in Europe and Iran. Two main branches of modernism in Iran are distinguished, Islamic and secular; represented, by Sayyid Jamal al-Din Asadabadi and Mirza Malkum Khan respectively. The thesis is based on an interpretative analysis of the proposals and ideas for reform and social change, which were expressed in correspondences and essays by these two modernists, specifically, and a few other intellectuals of the period under study. The focus is on the content of their modern projects and the ways in which they mediated their ideas in their political practice. The thesis proposed here is that although the projects of modernity, in the constitutional movement, was in part successful in establishing the basis for a modern Iran, it lacked two of the fundamental elements of modernism in the West: (1) carrying out a successful dialogue with one's own past (immanent criticism) in order to develop a modern secular rationality; and (2) establishing a modern rational state based on a complete separation of religion and state. It is argued that the attempt to uncritically adapt the modern Western concepts and ideals to the traditional system has been one of the fundamental barriers to the establishment of a secular political thought in Iran. This adaptation has taken place by utilizing an Islamic rhetoric to express the demands of modern social and cultural conditions. Therefore, this thesis concludes that, contrary to the commonly held view, the secularization of social thought in Iran did not effectively take place in the constitutional movement, and that the unfinished project of modernity remains the fundamental problematic of the Iranian society.
Majorana representation of adiabatic and superadiabatic processes in three-level systems
Creators: name: Dogra, Shruti
name: Vepsäläinen, Antti
name: Paraoanu, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) and its superadiabatic version (saSTIRAP) have a natural geometric two-star representation on the Majorana sphere. In the case of STIRAP, we find that the evolution is confined to a vertical plane. A faster evolution can be achieved in the saSTIRAP protocol, which employs a counterdiabatic Hamiltonian to nullify the non-adiabatic excitations. We derive this Hamiltonian in the Majorana picture, and we observe how, under realistic experimental parameters, the counterdiabatic term corrects the trajectory of the Majorana stars toward the dark state. We also introduce a spin-1 average vector and present its evolution during the two processes, demonstrating that it provides a measure of nonadiabaticity. We show that the Majorana representation can be used as a sensitive tool for the detection of process errors due to ac Stark shifts and non-adiabatic transitions. Finally, we provide an extension of these results to mixed states and processes with decoherence.
description: Comments are welcome
Characterization of rhodopsin kinase in the mammalian retina and pineal gland: A potential prototype for a new class of protein kinases
Creators: name: Somers, Robert Lee
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Rhodopsin kinase, a substrate specific protein kinase found in the rod photoreceptor cells of the retina, phosphorylates the visual pigment rhodopsin subsequent to light absorption. Phosphorylation of photolyzed rhodopsin by rhodopsin kinase decreases its ability to initiate the cascade of reactions leading to visual excitation thereby regulating the sensitivity of the rod photoreceptor cell to light. Rhodopsin kinase was extracted from bovine retinas and purified over 6500-fold utilizing a series of chromatographic steps. Basic to this process was the stabilization of activity with a detergent. Rhodopsin kinase, thus purified, had an apparent molecular weight of 65,000 daltons and underwent adenosine 5$\sp\prime$-triphosphate-dependent autophosphorylation. The enzyme was unstable and subject to proteolysis, initially yielding a 55,000 dalton fragment which was identical in all respects to purified rhodopsin kinase previously reported by Shichi and Somers (1978). Purified rhodopsin kinase is insensitive to regulation by cyclic nucleotides, Ca$\sp{++}$, or lipids. The enzyme is half-maximally inhibited by Ca$\sp{++}$ and Zn$\sp{++}$ at concentrations of 0.1 and 0.5 M, respectively. Additionally, rhodopsin kinase is known to be highly specific for a unique intermediate of rhodopsin photolysis (metarhodopsin II). Rhodopsin kinase is unable to phosphorylate substrates for cyclic-nucleotide-dependent and -independent kinases, as well as substrates for C-kinase and Ca$\sp{++}$/calmodulin-dependent kinase. Rhodopsin kinase activity is highly tissue-specific, being found only in the retina and mammalian pineal organ, a tissue phylogenetically related to the retina. The unique substrate specificity and tissue distribution of the enzyme precludes inclusion of rhodopsin kinase in any of the general classes of protein kinases. The structural and functional similarities between the protein components involved in the light-dependent phosphorylation of rhodopsin and the agonist-dependent phosphorylation of the $\beta$-adrenergic receptor by $\beta$-adrenergic receptor kinase, suggests that the two kinases may exemplify a new class of kinases specific for membrane receptors involved in transmembrane signalling. The present improved method for purification and stabilization of rhodopsin kinase, along with the ability to purify the other components of the light transducing system, make it an ideal model for studying the role of phosphorylation in regulating transmembrane signalling.
Supereigenvalue Model and Dijkgraaf-Vafa Proposal
Creators: name: Itoyama, H.
name: Kanno, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a variant of the supereigenvalue model proposed before by Alvarez-Gaume, Itoyama, Manes, and Zadra. This model derives a set of three planar loop equations which takes the same form as the set of three anomalous Ward-Takahashi identities on the gaugino condensates recently derived by Cachazo, Douglas, Seiberg and Witten. Another model which implements N=2 superVirasoro constraints is constructed for comparison.
description: 10 pages, Latex
The Hawking Energy on the Past Lightcone in Cosmology
Creators: name: Stock, Dennis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work studies the Hawking energy in a cosmological context. The past lightcone of a point in spacetime is the natural geometric structure closely linked to cosmological observations. By slicing the past lightcone into a 1-parameter family of spacelike 2-surfaces, the evolution of the Hawking energy down the lightcone is studied. Strong gravitational fields may generate lightcone self-intersections and wave front singularities. We show that in the presence of swallow-tail type singularities, the Hawking energy and its variation along the null generators of the lightcone remains well-defined and subsequently discuss its positivity and monotonicity.
description: matches published version
On New Forms of Science Communication and Communication in Science: A Videographic Approach to Visuality in Science Slams and Academic Group Talk
Creators: name: Wilke, René
name: Hill, Miira
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 301 Soziologie, Anthropologie
subject: videography
subject: focused ethnography
subject: communicative construction
subject: science communication
subject: visualization
subject: interdisciplinarity
subject: transdisciplinarity

description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: In this article, we focus on the communicative character of visuality and visual representations (“visuals”) in transdisciplinary science communication (science slams) and interdisciplinary communication within science (group talks). We propose a methodology for the study of visuality and the use of visuals as communicative actions. Both unfold within a triadic structure of social actors and the objectivations they (re-)produce. Therefore, we combine the approach of videography and focused ethnography. This research design allows not only putting actions under an audiovisual microscope but also to combine ethnographic knowledge stemming from fieldwork with the audiovisual analysis in front of screens. Using data from our empirical fields (science communication in science slams as well as communication within science in group talks), we illustrate the vital role of visuality of new practices in the communicative construction of (scientific) reality. In doing so, we also emphasize the importance of audiovisual methods for qualitative empirical social research today.
Characterization of rhodopsin kinase in the mammalian retina and pineal gland: A potential prototype for a new class of protein kinases
Creators: name: Somers, Robert Lee
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology

description: Rhodopsin kinase, a substrate specific protein kinase found in the rod photoreceptor cells of the retina, phosphorylates the visual pigment rhodopsin subsequent to light absorption. Phosphorylation of photolyzed rhodopsin by rhodopsin kinase decreases its ability to initiate the cascade of reactions leading to visual excitation thereby regulating the sensitivity of the rod photoreceptor cell to light. Rhodopsin kinase was extracted from bovine retinas and purified over 6500-fold utilizing a series of chromatographic steps. Basic to this process was the stabilization of activity with a detergent. Rhodopsin kinase, thus purified, had an apparent molecular weight of 65,000 daltons and underwent adenosine 5$\sp\prime$-triphosphate-dependent autophosphorylation. The enzyme was unstable and subject to proteolysis, initially yielding a 55,000 dalton fragment which was identical in all respects to purified rhodopsin kinase previously reported by Shichi and Somers (1978). Purified rhodopsin kinase is insensitive to regulation by cyclic nucleotides, Ca$\sp{++}$, or lipids. The enzyme is half-maximally inhibited by Ca$\sp{++}$ and Zn$\sp{++}$ at concentrations of 0.1 and 0.5 M, respectively. Additionally, rhodopsin kinase is known to be highly specific for a unique intermediate of rhodopsin photolysis (metarhodopsin II). Rhodopsin kinase is unable to phosphorylate substrates for cyclic-nucleotide-dependent and -independent kinases, as well as substrates for C-kinase and Ca$\sp{++}$/calmodulin-dependent kinase. Rhodopsin kinase activity is highly tissue-specific, being found only in the retina and mammalian pineal organ, a tissue phylogenetically related to the retina. The unique substrate specificity and tissue distribution of the enzyme precludes inclusion of rhodopsin kinase in any of the general classes of protein kinases. The structural and functional similarities between the protein components involved in the light-dependent phosphorylation of rhodopsin and the agonist-dependent phosphorylation of the $\beta$-adrenergic receptor by $\beta$-adrenergic receptor kinase, suggests that the two kinases may exemplify a new class of kinases specific for membrane receptors involved in transmembrane signalling. The present improved method for purification and stabilization of rhodopsin kinase, along with the ability to purify the other components of the light transducing system, make it an ideal model for studying the role of phosphorylation in regulating transmembrane signalling.
The world system in transition: information technology and transnational banking
Creators: name: Al-Muhanna, Ibrahim A.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: A close relationship between information and transnational banking industries has existed for over a century. However, the recent development in information technology, where computer and telecommunications converged and which is known as transborder data flows, TDF, has changed the nature of this relationship and the structure of international political economy. TDF makes time, space, and distance meaningless in the process of storing and transferring data. More than any industry, the banking industry is very sensitive to these three elements. Utilizing TDF, transnational banks and other financial establishments have created a variety of communication networks. These networks are used for different purposes which range from personal management to money and fund transfers. Thus, the financial market is internationalized, making the concept of national borders of little relevance. The impact of TDF goes beyond the internationalization of banking. As soon as this new technology came into use around the mid-1960s, Western banks began a period of across-the-border expansion. Therefore, by the beginning of the 1970s, the old financial system, which was based on state supervision, started to break down. Currencies were floated, and financial markets were gradually deregulated. At the same time, many financial phenomena such as Euromarket and off-shore financial centers are becoming an integral part of world finance. These phenomena are made possible by TDF, and they further globalized the financial market. By the 1980s, Western governments were losing their power over financial transactions, socialist countries were moving toward more integration with the world capitalist economy, and transnational financial establishments became the master of international financial relations. This structural change has produced many results: Barter becomes an important part of international trade, labor organizations, and third world countries' statures are weakened. Perhaps the most important part in transnational banking is the diminishing role of the state. Since the emergence of the national state system, the state role in political economy was increasing over the years. This role, however, is going through a period of reverse in the last fifteen years. The study concludes that the current transformation in the world system is not over yet. It might lead to the emergence of conflicting economic blocs, or perhaps a total collapse of the world financial system.
An investigation into high performance low­‐flow showerheads for use on university campuses
Creators: name: Do, Sung Won
name: Manzoor, Faizul
name: Nguyen, Mary
name: Saxena, Utkarsh
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The following report provides recommendations to the Student Housing and Hospitality Services (SHHS) at UBC’s Vancouver campus regarding which low-flow showerhead models to install in existing and new campus residences. This showerhead replacement program aims to reduce water consumption by replacing inefficient older showerhead models with newer models. Many other institutions have already successfully implemented a similar program. To determine which low-flow showerhead model should be installed in student residences a Triple Bottom Line (TBL) assessment and showerhead performance survey were conducted. The TBL assessment consists of assessments regarding the social, environmental and economic impact of the showerhead replacement program. The research for these assessments was gathered through surveying UBC students, academic papers and websites. Social impact was measured by student satisfaction ratings on four low-flow showerhead models in an anonymous survey. The showerheads included in the survey were Waterpik Aquascape, Jetstream Atlas II, Bricor Eco-Bravo PC and High Sierra Classic. The environmental assessment consisted of estimating student water consumption for each showerhead model in the survey as well as conventional showerheads. To assess the economic impact of the showerhead replacement program, a life cycle cost analysis was conducted to determine the life cycle cost of each low-flow showerhead model. Based on the results of the low-flow showerhead performance survey and TBL assessment, it is advantageous for SHHS to replace conventional showerheads with either the Waterpik Aquascape or Jetstream Atlas II showerhead models. Analysis of the survey data showed a positive relationship between user satisfaction ratings and market price of the showerhead. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Xanthoneuria Uchida 2011
Creators: name: Uchida, Shigekazu
name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Sivec, Ignac
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Xanthoneuria

description: The following species key will distinguish adult species of Xanthoneuria from Japan.
 1 Femora and tibiae yellow except for black distal femoral margin and dark tibial base ……… fulva
1’ Femora and/or tibiae with extensive dark brown pigment ……………………………………….….. 2
 2 Dorsodistal margin of femora yellow …... bolivari
 2’ Dorsodistal margin of femora dark brown.. jouklii
description: Published as part of Uchida, Shigekazu, Stark, Bill P. & Sivec, Ignac, 2011, Xanthoneuria, A New Genus Of Stonefly (Plecoptera: Perlidae) From Japan, pp. 65-69 in Illiesia 7 (5) on page 69, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760423
The world system in transition: information technology and transnational banking
Creators: name: Al-Muhanna, Ibrahim A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A close relationship between information and transnational banking industries has existed for over a century. However, the recent development in information technology, where computer and telecommunications converged and which is known as transborder data flows, TDF, has changed the nature of this relationship and the structure of international political economy. TDF makes time, space, and distance meaningless in the process of storing and transferring data. More than any industry, the banking industry is very sensitive to these three elements. Utilizing TDF, transnational banks and other financial establishments have created a variety of communication networks. These networks are used for different purposes which range from personal management to money and fund transfers. Thus, the financial market is internationalized, making the concept of national borders of little relevance. The impact of TDF goes beyond the internationalization of banking. As soon as this new technology came into use around the mid-1960s, Western banks began a period of across-the-border expansion. Therefore, by the beginning of the 1970s, the old financial system, which was based on state supervision, started to break down. Currencies were floated, and financial markets were gradually deregulated. At the same time, many financial phenomena such as Euromarket and off-shore financial centers are becoming an integral part of world finance. These phenomena are made possible by TDF, and they further globalized the financial market. By the 1980s, Western governments were losing their power over financial transactions, socialist countries were moving toward more integration with the world capitalist economy, and transnational financial establishments became the master of international financial relations. This structural change has produced many results: Barter becomes an important part of international trade, labor organizations, and third world countries' statures are weakened. Perhaps the most important part in transnational banking is the diminishing role of the state. Since the emergence of the national state system, the state role in political economy was increasing over the years. This role, however, is going through a period of reverse in the last fifteen years. The study concludes that the current transformation in the world system is not over yet. It might lead to the emergence of conflicting economic blocs, or perhaps a total collapse of the world financial system.
Dynamics of stripe patterns in type-I superconductors subject to a rotating field
Creators: name: Menghini, M.
name: Wijngaarden, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of stripe patterns in type-I superconductors subject to a rotating in-plane magnetic field is investigated magneto-optically. The experimental results reveal a very rich and interesting behavior of the patterns. For small rotation angles, a small parallel displacement of the main part of the stripes and a co-rotation of their very ends is observed. For larger angles, small sideward protrusions develop, which then generate a zigzag instability, ultimately leading to a breaking of stripes into smaller segments. The short segments then start to co-rotate with the applied field although they lag behind by approximately $10^\circ$. Very interestingly, if the rotation is continued, also reconnection of segments into longer stripes takes place. These observations demonstrate the importance of pinning in type-I superconductors.
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. B
White dwarf deflagrations for Type Iax supernovae: Polarisation signatures from the explosion and companion interaction
Creators: name: Bulla, M.
name: Liu, Z. -W.
name: Roepke, F. K.
name: Sim, S. A.
name: Fink, M.
name: Kromer, M.
name: Pakmor, R.
name: Seitenzahl, I. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Growing evidence suggests that Type Iax supernovae might be the result of thermonuclear deflagrations of Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs in binary systems. We carry out Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations and predict spectropolarimetric features originating from the supernova explosion and subsequent ejecta interaction with the companion star. Specifically, we calculate viewing-angle dependent flux and polarisation spectra for a 3D model simulating the deflagration of a Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf and, for a second model, simulating the ejecta interaction with a main-sequence star. We find that the intrinsic signal is weakly polarised and only mildly viewing-angle dependent, owing to the overall spherical symmetry of the explosion and the depolarising contribution of iron-group elements dominating the ejecta composition. The interaction with the companion star carves out a cavity in the ejecta and produces a detectable, but modest signal that is significant only at relatively blue wavelengths ($\lesssim$ 5000 $\unicode{x212B}$). In particular, increasingly fainter and redder spectra are predicted for observer orientations further from the cavity, while a modest polarisation signal $P\sim0.2$ per cent is found at blue wavelengths for orientations 30$^\circ$ and 45$^\circ$ away from the cavity. We find a reasonable agreement between the interaction model viewed from these orientations and spectropolarimetric data of SN 2005hk and interpret the maximum-light polarisation signal seen at blue wavelengths for this event as a possible signature of the ejecta-companion interaction. We encourage further polarimetric observations of SNe Iax to test whether our results can be extended and generalised to the whole SN Iax class.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in A&A; metadata update
The nature and destiny of man in the doctrine of Plotinus and H. P. Blavatsky
Creators: name: Clarke, Catherine King
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The central purpose of this study is to determine and document the common bond of knowledge found in the teachings of Plotinus and H. P. Blavatsky. This will involve exploring analytically the ideas found in both doctrines concerning the nature of man and his destiny, and the relationship which exists between them. Both of these thinkers share the Platonic tradition. The teachings of Plotinus, which developed into Neoplatonism, include influences from Stoicism, Aristotelianism and Neo-Phythagoreanism. Blavatsky shares the fruits of these doctrines through Neoplatonism, as well as an Indian influence. In both systems there is a kinship with the Cabalistic, Gnostic and Hermetic traditions. Plotinus and Blavatsky saw man as the connecting link between two worlds. The principle of mind was established in man so that through free will and right choices, he could be a co-creator with the evolving Plan of the universe to which he is inextricably bound. This partnership is often disrupted because man's choices are anchored in narrow thinking and selfishness. In both traditions the ultimate destroyer of this limited vision is true knowledge and discipline. This knowledge is not the adding on to an already cluttered mind of further facts, beliefs and opinions, but the removal of all that obstructs man's intinsic awareness. Thus the overriding theme is that the source of all man's answers is within, and if the divine spark within man could uninterruptedly manifest itself, we would no longer be men and women, but we should all be gods. They both taught the interrelationship between all life, and particularly emphasized the connecting link between all souls in the higher world. Man deludes himself with the illusion of separate and individual existence on the physical plane. This keeps him ever from the reality of the truth of his identity. (Both urged man to focus his attention on the higher realms where there is oneness, and live the life as there, here on earth.). Blavatsky has rarely been studied in the world of Academe; therefore, this study has demonstrated the intellectual kinship and wisdom which she shares not only with Plotinus, but with others in the intellectual and philosophical domain.
The nature and destiny of man in the doctrine of Plotinus and H. P. Blavatsky
Creators: name: Clarke, Catherine King
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The central purpose of this study is to determine and document the common bond of knowledge found in the teachings of Plotinus and H. P. Blavatsky. This will involve exploring analytically the ideas found in both doctrines concerning the nature of man and his destiny, and the relationship which exists between them. Both of these thinkers share the Platonic tradition. The teachings of Plotinus, which developed into Neoplatonism, include influences from Stoicism, Aristotelianism and Neo-Phythagoreanism. Blavatsky shares the fruits of these doctrines through Neoplatonism, as well as an Indian influence. In both systems there is a kinship with the Cabalistic, Gnostic and Hermetic traditions. Plotinus and Blavatsky saw man as the connecting link between two worlds. The principle of mind was established in man so that through free will and right choices, he could be a co-creator with the evolving Plan of the universe to which he is inextricably bound. This partnership is often disrupted because man's choices are anchored in narrow thinking and selfishness. In both traditions the ultimate destroyer of this limited vision is true knowledge and discipline. This knowledge is not the adding on to an already cluttered mind of further facts, beliefs and opinions, but the removal of all that obstructs man's intinsic awareness. Thus the overriding theme is that the source of all man's answers is within, and if the divine spark within man could uninterruptedly manifest itself, we would no longer be men and women, but we should all be gods. They both taught the interrelationship between all life, and particularly emphasized the connecting link between all souls in the higher world. Man deludes himself with the illusion of separate and individual existence on the physical plane. This keeps him ever from the reality of the truth of his identity. (Both urged man to focus his attention on the higher realms where there is oneness, and live the life as there, here on earth.). Blavatsky has rarely been studied in the world of Academe; therefore, this study has demonstrated the intellectual kinship and wisdom which she shares not only with Plotinus, but with others in the intellectual and philosophical domain.
Can Advanced Type Systems Be Usable? An Empirical Study of Ownership, Assets, and Typestate in Obsidian
Creators: name: Coblenz, Michael
name: Aldrich, Jonathan
name: Sunshine, Joshua
name: Myers, Brad A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.3; D.2.3

description: Some blockchain programs (smart contracts) have included serious security vulnerabilities. Obsidian is a new typestate-oriented programming language that uses a strong type system to rule out some of these vulnerabilities. Although Obsidian was designed to promote usability to make it as easy as possible to write programs, strong type systems can cause a language to be difficult to use. In particular, ownership, typestate, and assets, which Obsidian uses to provide safety guarantees, have not seen broad adoption together in popular languages and result in significant usability challenges. We performed an empirical study with 20 participants comparing Obsidian to Solidity, which is the language most commonly used for writing smart contracts today. We observed that Obsidian participants were able to successfully complete more of the programming tasks than the Solidity participants. We also found that the Solidity participants commonly inserted asset-related bugs, which Obsidian detects at compile time.
description: Published open access in PACMPL Issue OOPSLA 2020