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Mechanical characterization of a tire derived material and its application in vibration reduction
Creators: name: Montella, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: Tire Derived Materials (TDMs) deserve special interest as the reuse of tires is one of the most important topics in recycling and Environmental Engineering. This thesis describes the mechanical characterization of a new TDM based on appropriate experimental tests. Moreover a novel strain energy function is presented, based on the Hencky-logarithmic strain tensor, to model the response for moderately large deformations. Finally a Finite element program is used to solve an optimization problem of railway track mat for light-weight lines.
Letter from M.J. Henry to Manager of Rainbow Ranche, March 14, 1908
Creators: name: Henry, M.J.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to the Manager of Rainbow Ranche (Hewer) from M.J. Henry (Nurseryman and Seedsman), dated March 14, 1908, regarding a request for instructions needed to ship the spring order.
Developing the recoil-in-vacuum technique for magnetic moment measurements on fission fragments and radioactive beams
Creators: name: Leslie, Russell
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: This thesis reports on work to develop and refine the recoil in vacuum (RIV) technique as a method to measure the g factors for picosecond lifetime excited nuclear states. The challenge has been to calibrate the hyperfine interactions of free ions moving in vacuum, so that their influence on the angular correlations of the radiation de-exciting the nuclear state can be interpreted to extract its magnetic moments. The RIV interaction was characterised, calibrated and modelled on stable isotopes, with a view to using the resulting improved understanding to measure the magnetic moments of quantum states in isotopes away from the valley of stability. Magnetic moment measurements illuminate the internal structure of the nucleus and are an important observable to understand nuclear structure away from the valley of stability. This research at the ANU has involved work with the even, stable isotopes of germanium, selenium, ruthenium and palladium at energies of the order of 2MeV/nucleon. These four elements were chosen for study because they have atomic numbers in regions where fission fragment distributions peak. Therefore they provide useful RIV calibrations for future radioactive beam measurements in which fission fragments are re-accelerated. The stable isotope beams were Coulomb excited in inverse kinematics on carbon, aluminium, and nickel targets. The beam energies and target thicknesses were chosen to provide a range of velocity values which would result in different distributions of charge states in the recoiling ions. The work demonstrated that understandings of both the charge state distributions and atomic structure of the recoiling ions is crucial.
Development and application of advanced numerical techniques for the analysis of optical data of turbulent flames
Creators: name: Lombardi, Simone
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: This work is focused on the development and application of advanced numerical decomposition techniques for the analysis of combustion through time-resolved, high resolution images from turbulent flames. Particularly, the main techniques developed are based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), Independent Component Analysis (ICA), Optical Flow (OF), and Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD).
First, POD and ICA are employed both to extract the dominant features of the flames, in terms of luminosity field, and for the analysis of cycle-to-cycle variations in optically accessible internal combustion engines. Modal decomposition allowed to analyze the cycle variations both in terms of global luminosity and morphological features of the luminosity field.  Moreover, ICA has allowed to extract the independent spatial features of the flame, i.e. the diffusive combustion of fuel jets in a Diesel engine and the ignition and radial-like flame propagation in a port-fuel injection (PFI) spark ignition (SI) engine.
The work reported here includes the first application of Optical Flow (OF) to 2D flame images. Particularly, with regard to flame images relative to an optically accessible PFI SI engine,  OF has permitted to estimate and study the motion field of the flame front during the propagation, more precisely the burned gas front, from the spark to the chamber wall.
POD has also been used for the analysis of OH* chemiluminescence and OH-PLIF images from ethanol, n-heptane, n-decane, and n-dodecane swirl-stabilised spray flames far from and close to blow-off, to examine how the flame is modified at extinction conditions and how the large-scale features of the blow-off process may be detected before complete extinction. The analysis has allowed to identify for each flame and each operating condition the dominant structures of the flame (POD modes).  Moreover,  the statistical behaviour of the flames were also analysed via the coherent (non-Gaussian) and incoherent (Gaussian) analysis. Coherent-incoherent analyses carried out on OH-PLIF measurement has shown that the flame front assumes behaviour less and less Gaussian as the blow-off is approached, independently from the fuel used.
Finally, the thesis reports on the application of a relatively new decomposition method, the Dynamic Mode Decomposition, particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements from a swirled jet flow. DMD has allowed to identify the features of the precessing vortex in terms of frequency, growth rate and morphology (spatial pattern described by the dynamic modes), and even allowed to identify the feature associated with a transient phenomenon.
Photo-oxidation of tyrosine in a bio-engineered bacterioferritin 'reaction centre'
Creators: name: Hingorani, Kastoori
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 2014
Subjects: bacterioferritin
photosystem II
reaction centre
tyrosine oxidation
artificial photosynthesis
protein engineering
electron transfer
ZnCe6

description: The photosynthetic reaction centre (RC) is central to conversion of solar energy into chemical energy. In this thesis, in order to introduce the redox-active cofactors similar to that of the Photosystem II RC, a non-photosynthetic protein scaffold was used as an in vitro model. The protein tasked for this purpose was the heme containing bacterioferritin (BFR) protein found in E. coli. The BFR protein naturally expresses as a homodimer based on a 4-helix bundle monomer. Desirable properties included: (i) a promiscuos di-nuclear metal binding site which provides ligands for class II metals such as Mn (ii) a hydrophobic pocket at the dimer interface which can bind a photosensitive porphyrin, in this case a chlorin (Ce6), and (iii) presence of tyrosine residues proximal to the bound cofactors, which can be utilised as efficient electron-tunnelling intermediates. The work in this thesis extends earlier work in the group by refining and improving the BFR system. Several mutants were made and an improved protein expression system was developed. For these samples experiments demonstrated ligation of weakly coupled equivalent Mn2II,II at the di-nuclear binding site of apo-BFR, and binding of the photo-active pigment ZnCe6 in hydrophobic pocket of the protein. Light-induced electron transfer from proximal tyrosine residue(s) to the photo-oxidised ZnCe6+, in the modified BFR reconsitituted with both ZnCe6 and MnII is presented. Three site-specific tyrosine mutants (Y25F, Y58F and Y45F) were made to localise the redox-active tyrosine in this engineered system. The results indicate that: (i) presence of bound MnII is necessary to observe tyrosine oxidation in all BFR variants, (ii) Y45 (within van Der Waals network of ZnCe6) is singly the most important tyrosine as the immediate electron donor to the oxidised ZnCe6+, and (iii) Y25 and Y58 are both redox-active in this system, but appear to be interchangebale. A high-resolution (~1.5 Ã…) crystal structure of the three tyrosine mutants was obtained and these structures showed there to be no mutation-induced effects on the overall 3-D structure of the protein. Minimal effects observed in the Y45F mutant are reported. The molecular design of a "second generation" of the BFR series is also presented where the symmetry of the BFR homodimer is broken to generate a BFR heterodimer to contain genetically distinct electron donor and acceptor subunits. The BFR heterodimer was made by introducing a small (20 aa) peptide linker between the two subunits. The ultimate goal will be to demonstrate light-induced directional electron flow in the BFR heterodimer.
Low Energy Light Yield of Fast Plastic Scintillators
Creators: name: Laplace, T. A.
name: Goldblum, B. L.
name: Brown, J. A.
name: Bleuel, D. L.
name: Brand, C. A.
name: Gabella, G.
name: Jordan, T.
name: Moore, C.
name: Munshi, N.
name: Sweger, Z. W.
name: Ureche, A.
name: Brubaker, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compact neutron imagers using double-scatter kinematic reconstruction are being designed for localization and characterization of special nuclear material. These neutron imaging systems rely on scintillators with a rapid prompt temporal response as the detection medium. As n-p elastic scattering is the primary mechanism for light generation by fast neutron interactions in organic scintillators, proton light yield data are needed for accurate assessment of scintillator performance. The proton light yield of a series of commercial fast plastic organic scintillators---EJ-200, EJ-204, and EJ-208---was measured via a double time-of-flight technique at the 88-Inch Cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Using a tunable deuteron breakup neutron source, target scintillators housed in a dual photomultiplier tube configuration, and an array of pulse-shape-discriminating observation scintillators, the fast plastic scintillator light yield was measured over a broad and continuous energy range down to proton recoil energies of approximately 50 keV. This work provides key input to event reconstruction algorithms required for utilization of these materials in emerging neutron imaging modalities.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
An optimal nonlinear method for simulating relic neutrinos
Creators: name: Elbers, Willem
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
name: Jenkins, Adrian
name: Li, Baojiu
name: Pascoli, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmology places the strongest current limits on the sum of neutrino masses. Future observations will further improve the sensitivity and this will require accurate cosmological simulations to quantify possible systematic uncertainties and to make predictions for nonlinear scales, where much information resides. However, shot noise arising from neutrino thermal motions limits the accuracy of simulations. In this paper, we introduce a new method for simulating large-scale structure formation with neutrinos that accurately resolves the neutrinos down to small scales and significantly reduces the shot noise. The method works by tracking perturbations to the neutrino phase-space distribution with particles and reduces shot noise in the power spectrum by a factor of $\mathcal{O}\left(10^2\right)$ at $z=0$ for minimal neutrino masses and significantly more at higher redshifts, without neglecting the back-reaction caused by neutrino clustering. We prove that the method is part of a family of optimal methods that minimize shot noise subject to a maximum deviation from the nonlinear solution. Compared to other methods we find permille level agreement in the matter power spectrum and percent level agreement in the large-scale neutrino bias, but large differences in the neutrino component on small scales. A basic version of the method can easily be implemented in existing N-body codes and makes it possible to run neutrino simulations with significantly reduced particle load. Further gains are possible by constructing background models based on perturbation theory. A major advantage of this technique is that it works well for all masses, enabling a consistent exploration of the full neutrino parameter space.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Magnetic properties and domain structure of (Ga,Mn)As films with perpendicular anisotropy
Creators: name: Thevenard, Laura
name: Largeau, Ludovic
name: Mauguin, Olivia
name: Patriarche, Gilles
name: Lemaître, Aristide
name: Vernier, Nicolas
name: Ferré, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ferromagnetism of a thin GaMnAs layer with a perpendicular easy anisotropy axis is investigated by means of several techniques, that yield a consistent set of data on the magnetic properties and the domain structure of this diluted ferromagnetic semiconductor. The magnetic layer was grown under tensile strain on a relaxed GaInAs buffer layer using a procedure that limits the density of threading dislocations. Magnetometry, magneto-transport and polar magneto-optical Kerr effect (PMOKE) measurements reveal the high quality of this layer, in particular through its high Curie temperature (130 K) and well-defined magnetic anisotropy. We show that magnetization reversal is initiated from a limited number of nucleation centers and develops by easy domain wall propagation. Furthermore, MOKE microscopy allowed us to characterize in detail the magnetic domain structure. In particular we show that domain shape and wall motion are very sensitive to some defects, which prevents a periodic arrangement of the domains. We ascribed these defects to threading dislocations emerging in the magnetic layer, inherent to the growth mode on a relaxed buffer.
Investigating the validity of gender and sexual harassment measures among Asian, Black, Latina, and White women
Creators: name: Bennett, Ashley M.
name: 0000-0002-8255-5792
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sexual harassment
Gender harassment
Global sexism

description: Measures of sexual harassment are commonly used on racially diverse samples of women, therefore, an investigation into the validity of these measures is warranted. The sexual harassment measures under investigation included the Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ; Fitzgerald et al., 1999), the Schedule of Sexist Events - Appraisal (SSE-A; Klonoff & Landrine, 1997), and the Gender Experiences Questionnaire (GEQ; Leskinen & Cortina, 2014). The aim of this dissertation was testing the structure and validity of these measures among women of color. Data were collected from 483 U.S. Asian or Asian American (n = 84), Black or African American (n = 112), Latinas or Hispanic/Hispanic American (n = 78), and White or European American (n = 186) women working in traditionally masculine fields (e.g., tech, accounting, construction). Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was used along with hierarchical regression. It was found that the measurement structures varied across Asian, Black, Latina, and White women in nuanced ways. After making several modifications, the models fit the data well for all groups, with the exception that the SEQ baseline model did not fit for Asian women. Black women reported greater stress resulting from personal sexist events (a component SSE-A) compared to both White and Asian women. Latinas reported significantly greater infantilization (a component of GEQ) compared to Asian women. Sexual harassment was examined as a predictor of four outcomes: psychological distress, job satisfaction, contest culture, and workplace belonging. Sexual harassment frequency (i.e., SEQ) pre dicted psychological distress for Asian women and Latinas but not Black women. Sexism appraisal (i.e., SSE-A) pre dicted psychological distress and job satisfaction, however, these relationships were weaker for Black women compared to Asian women and Latinas. Gender harassment frequency (i.e., GEQ) significantly predicted greater masculinity contest culture, especially for Latinas. This study provides an in-depth investigation into the structural, construct, and criterion validity of these sexual harassment measures. Racial differences in validity suggest that taking a gender-only approach to measuring workplace harassment for women of color may be insufficient.
Influenza dell'ambiente colturale e dell'epoca di trapianto su  simbiosi, assorbimenti nutrizionali, crescita, produzione e qualità della fava (vicia faba L.mayor Hartz) da consumo fresco, in regime convenzionale e biologico, in Campania.
Creators: name: Borrelli, Carlo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: Nel triennio 2010 – 2013 è stata condotta una prova sperimentale  in provincia di Napoli finalizzata alla valutazione degli effetti dell'ambiente colturale (pieno campo e serra), dell'epoca d'impianto (cinque epoche a partire dal 27 settembre con cadenza bisettimanale fino al 22 novembre) e del metodo di gestione (convenzionale e biologico) su: rapporto di simbiosi con il Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae, variabili fisiologiche, produttive e qualitative della fava da baccelli freschi. In particolare, la ricerca è stata incentrata sullo studio delle dinamiche relative all'assorbimento dei nutrienti, alla crescita ed al comportamento produttivo delle piante di fava, nonché alla qualità dei semi ottenuti ed alle loro proprietà antiossidanti.
Sugli apparati radicali delle piante allevate in pien'aria è stato rilevato un maggior numero sia di tubercoli radicali complessivi sia di quelli attivi, rispetto a quanto registrate per le piante gestite in serra;
Gli assorbimenti dell'azoto e del fosforo da parte delle piante hanno assunto andamenti analoghi in serra ed in pieno campo. Inoltre, il contenuto di entrambi gli elementi è risultato più elevato nelle piante allevate con il metodo biologico rispetto a quelle gestite convenzionalmente.
Le piante allevate in pieno campo hanno manifestato un maggior accumulo di sostanza secca nonché espansioni fogliare e radicale più pronunciate in confronto a quelle gestite in ambiente protetto.
La terza epoca di trapianto è risultata la più produttiva in ambiente protetto, mentre la quarta ha fornito la migliore prestazione in pieno campo.
Le piante allevate in serra hanno fatto registrare un significativo anticipo di fruttificazione e maturazione dei baccelli, rispetto a quelle gestite in pieno campo, che è oscillato tra 10 e 3 giorni nel passaggio dalla prima all'ultima epoca di trapianto.
Non sono state registrate differenze significative sia tra i due ambienti di coltivazione sia tra i due metodi colturali adottati per quel che riguarda il contenuto di proteine e di fibre dei semi. L'ambiente di pieno campo ha invece determinato un maggiore accumulo di polifenoli totali in confronto a quello protetto. Le proteine e le fibre sono stati influenzati dai valori termici registrati nell'ambiente di coltivazione, considerato che sono stati registrati i livelli maggiori in corrispondenza delle temperature più alte.
Spectral calculations on locally convex vector spaces I
Creators: name: Lakos, Gyula
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A60 (Primary) 47A06 (Secondary)

description: We develop a holomorphic functional calculus for (multivalued linear) operators on locally convex vector spaces. This includes the case of fractional powers along Lipschitz curves.
description: 18 pages
Detecting chaos, determining the dimensions of tori and predicting slow diffusion in Fermi--Pasta--Ulam lattices by the Generalized Alignment Index method
Creators: name: Skokos, Charalampos
name: Bountis, Tassos
name: Antonopoulos, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently introduced GALI method is used for rapidly detecting chaos, determining the dimensionality of regular motion and predicting slow diffusion in multi--dimensional Hamiltonian systems. We propose an efficient computation of the GALI$_k$ indices, which represent volume elements of $k$ randomly chosen deviation vectors from a given orbit, based on the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) algorithm. We obtain theoretically and verify numerically asymptotic estimates of GALIs long--time behavior in the case of regular orbits lying on low--dimensional tori. The GALI$_k$ indices are applied to rapidly detect chaotic oscillations, identify low--dimensional tori of Fermi--Pasta--Ulam (FPU) lattices at low energies and predict weak diffusion away from quasiperiodic motion, long before it is actually observed in the oscillations.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, submitted for publication in European Physical Journal - Special Topics. Revised version: Small explanatory additions to the text and addition of some references. A small figure change
The central strategy of music practice
Creators: name: Killion, Micah Furey
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Music
Practice
Expertise
Motor control

description: Individual practice is a ubiquitous component of all musicians’ lives, and music pedagogues for centuries have offered prescriptions to aspiring musicians regarding effective music practice. These prescriptions are often characterized as practice strategies, yet they often fail to precisely convey the moment-to-moment process of skill learning, one that embodies iterative sequences of prediction (intention), performance, perception, and adaptation. There is as yet no systematic research that documents the behavior of artist-level performers engaged in successful individual practice. I conducted two investigations, the first of which is a detailed analysis of the individual practice of six artist-level trumpet players. The second examined student musicians’ observation of expert practice. In the first study, six artist-level trumpet players submitted video recordings of their practice during which they rehearsed passages of music they had not yet mastered. The recordings were analyzed in detail to document how the artists allocated time, responded to discrepancies between intentions and outcomes, and organized practice activities to effect moment-to-moment changes in their playing. The results reveal that expert practice can be analyzed and described in terms of one central strategy: formulating vivid goals, performing, perceiving discrepancies between intentions and outcomes, and adapting subsequent performance trials to render momentary challenges surmountable. This is followed by iterations in which expert musicians adjust the parameters of each succeeding performance trial in ways that reduce the discrepancy between intentions and outcomes while maintaining a high percentage of successful performance trials. Three representative excerpts from the recordings used in first study served as stimuli for the second study. The excerpts were viewed by three groups of observers: undergraduate trumpet students, graduate trumpet students, and the six professionals who participated in the first study. Participants were interviewed to explore the extent to which they noticed the central strategy the experts used to refine their skills. There were stark differences between the observations of experts and those of nonexperts. Throughout the experts’ comments were indications of their recognizing what I describe as the central strategy of music practice. Student musicians seldom commented in ways that reflected recognition of this strategy.
Upper Atmosphere Smoke Injection from Large Areal Fires
Creators: name: Redfern, Stephanie
name: Lundquist, Julie K.
name: Toon, Owen B.
name: Muñoz-Esparza, Domingo
name: Bardeen, Charles G.
name: Kosović, Branko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large fires can inject smoke into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. Detailed fire simulations allow for assessment of how local weather interacts with these fires and affects smoke lofting. In this study, we employ the fire simulation package in the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF-Fire), Version 4.0.1, to explore how smoke lofting from a fire burning a homogeneous fuel bed changes with varying local winds, relative humidity, and atmospheric boundary-layer stability for two different-sized areal fires. We find that the presence of moisture has the greatest influence on the results by raising the altitude of lofting, while faster winds speeds dampen lofting and lower the injection height. Stably stratified conditions further inhibit plume propagation compared with neutrally stratified conditions.
Clumpy winds and the obscuration of Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Nayakshin, Sergei
name: Cuadra, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role of star-formation driven outflows in the obscuration of the central source in the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is discussed. The outflow from a sub-parsec scale accretion disc is numerically modelled for parameters appropriate to the Galactic Centre. The resulting obscuration pattern is very patchy, with some lines of sight becoming optically thick to Thomson scattering. A fixed observer would see column depth changing by factors of many over time scales of order months to hundreds of years, depending on the physical size of the outflow region. Such winds may be relevant for obscuration of some AGN and especially "changing look AGN". However, averaged over the sky as seen from the central source, these winds are always optically thin unless wind outflow rates are super-Eddington. A simple scaling argument shows that this is true not only for stellar-driven winds but for any AGN winds. We therefore conclude that AGN winds are unable to account for the vast majority of optically thick obscured AGN (a significant fraction of all AGN). We suggest that the most likely source of optically thick obscuration in AGN is a warped parsec scale accretion disc.
description: 5 pages, 5 colour figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Mesoscopic Charge Relaxation
Creators: name: Nigg, Simon E.
name: Lopez, Rosa
name: Buttiker, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider charge relaxation in the mesoscopic equivalent of an RC circuit. For a single-channel, spin-polarized contact, self-consistent scattering theory predicts a universal charge relaxation resistance equal to half a resistance quantum independent of the transmission properties of the contact. This prediction is in good agreement with recent experimental results. We use a tunneling Hamiltonian formalism and show in Hartree-Fock approximation, that at zero temperature the charge relaxation resistance is universal even in the presence of Coulomb blockade effects. We explore departures from universality as a function of temperature and magnetic field.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
[Undescribed tape]
Creators: name: Taylor, Xiipáa
name: Halpern, Abraham M.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: yum

description: 2 WAV files. Content described as Part 2 and Part 3, continuation of Part 1 from tape whose Side A is dated February 16. Digitization by The Audio Archive (Burlingame, California).
Image of mother in Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s Hahakoi stories
Creators: name: Jeon, Miseli
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The aim of this thesis is to reveal the transformation that takes place in Jun'ichoro Tanizaki's aestheticism by examining the maternal images in his hahakoi novels: "Longing for Mother" (Haha o kouru ki), "Captain Shigemoto's Mother" (Shosho Shigemoto no haha), and "The Bridge of Dreams" (Yume no ukihashi). The link between the maternal images and Tanizaki's aestheticism can be found in his artistic manifesto "In Praise of Shadows" (In'ei raisan). The aesthetic ideals and prerequisites set out in "Praise" are the very qualities possessed by Tanizaki's mother characters. The common qualities among these mothers do not constitute the main purpose of the thesis. Rather, it is in their differences, which are instrumental in demonstrating the process of evolution occurring in the author's aesthetic beliefs and principles, that my purpose is to be found. In order to discover these differences, the relationship between the protagonist and his mother and the protagonist's view of his mother, rather than the image of the mother in isolation, are explored. It is postulated that Tanizaki endeavoured throughout his career to establish a relationship between his art of fictional narrative and life/reality in a fashion that will satisfy him both as an artist and a man. This effort is vividly displayed in the confrontation between the protagonist's split selves: reason (reality) and instinct (fantasy). Tanizaki begins with the question of morality in art and focuses on the controversial issue of the incest taboo. In the early stage of his career, Tanizaki proclaimed the extreme aesthetic doctrines such as "art for art's sake" and "art instead of life." In order to realize this belief in its full force, Tanizaki subverts and revises his own aesthetic ideals. Finally in "Bridge," he successfully actualizes his fantasy, the unlimited expansion of imagination, and the protagonist obtains a complete freedom from moral bounds, but not without dreadful consequences. Unsatisfied with the result of the realized fantasy, Tanizaki undertakes another re-evaluation of his aestheticism and accepts both fantasy and reality as vital and legitimate realms or spheres for his art. He comes to a revelation that the mission of the writer is hot to choose one over the other, but to embrace both realms and stimulate the interplay between them. Perhaps, his aesthetic belief then is not so much "art for art's sake", but "both art and life."
A Synthetic Macroscopic Magnetic Unipole
Creators: name: Markoulakis, Emmanouil
name: Chatzakis, John
name: Konstantaras, Anthony
name: Antonidakis, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate experimentally with a prototype for the first time, that an artificial emergent magnetic unipole hedgehog field in a simply connected three dimensional domain is possible, emulating effectively the Dirac model by simply using a novel permanent magnets' topology and geometrical arrangement in a ring array. Although similar effects were demonstrated by others over the last decade, with these effects usually observed and lasting for a small fraction in time and applied at the quantum or microscopic scale using primary BECs, Skyrmions, Spin Ice and recently Chiral Magnets this was never shown until now and performed at the macro scale and by using normal magnets. The synthetic magnetic unipole ring array prototype progressively twists and steers the magnetic flux into vanishing curl field (i.e. vortex) geometry towards the center of the ring and its air cap. This mere act alone proves enough to create the desired effect and an apparent isolated magnetic unipole region is observed at the center of this magnetic ring array, as we have mapped with a three axis magnetometer and show with the quantum magnetic-optic device flux viewer, the ferrolens. This magnetic unipole is stable at room temperature. Because its macroscopic nature we were able to record for the first time the unique signal signature patterns of magnetic monopoles synthetic or natural, passing through a non-ideal ohmic solenoid shown in Fig.17 which can be used by researches to aid them in the detection of magnetic monopoles.
description: 17 pages, 17 figures, 1 table
Search for Tau Neutrinos in the τ → e Decay Channel in the OPERA Experiment
Creators: name: Hosseini, Behzad
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: The OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion tRacking Apparatus) experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that was designed to perform a conclusive test of the νμ → ντ oscillations hypothesis. The main aim of this experiment is a direct observation of τ leptons in ντ charged-current interactions. A good electromagnetic shower reconstruction is important for the τ detection in the τ → e decay channel.

So far, 4 ντ candidates have been observed in the OPERA detector with a background of 0.23 events. Given the number of analyzed events and the low background, νμ → ντ oscillations are established with a significance of 4.2 σ.

Reconstruction of electromagnetic showers is one of the fundamental tools needed by neutrino experiments and the estimation of their energy is a crucial issue. This is also true for the OPERA experiment where we have developed and tested an algorithm, in order to evaluate the energy of electron through the identification of its shower for the τ → e decay channel as well as νe interactions by using the OPERA bricks.

Normal reconstruction of a shower event depends upon the shower being contained in one brick. However, when a shower is initiated in the upstream portion of the brick, the shower will begin in the first brick, pass through the Electronic Detector (ED) and end in the second brick; making normal reconstruction methods unusable. Nearly half of the electromagnetic shower events detected take place across two bricks, meaning that previously, half of detected events had to be discarded. I have expanded my code in such a way to analyze showers with one or two brick distributions, allowing us to include 50 percent more events in our data sets.

This approach is using for the first time the information of the downstream brick to reconstruct and estimate the energy of electromagnetic showers in the OPERA experiment.
Letter from the Backman-Ker Milling Company to Rainbow Ranche, March 17, 1908
Creators: name: Co., The Brackman-Ker Milling
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to Rainbow Ranche from The Brackman-Ker Milling Company. dated March 17, 1908. regarding an order for seed oats and potatoes.
Dose–response relationship between alcohol consumption and workplace absenteeism in Australia
Creators: name: Marzan, Melvin Barrientos
name: Callinan, Sarah
name: Livingston, Michael
name: Jiang, Heng
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 3505
subject: Human resources and industrial relations
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Introduction: Workplace absenteeism is a burden in Australia. The estimated productivity losses due to alcohol were around $4.0 billion in 2017, with absenteeism driving 90% of these costs. We aim to determine the dose–response relationship between average daily alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking (HED) frequency and workplace absenteeism amongst Australian workers. Methods: We used the 2019 National Drug Strategy Household Survey of Australian employed workers aged ≥20 years to 69 years old. Respondents' average daily alcohol consumption was categorised into four: abstainers, light to moderate (1–20 g of alcohol/day), risky (>20–40 g of alcohol/day) and high-risk (>40 g of alcohol/day). HED was classified into four frequency measures (never, less than monthly, monthly, weekly). The outcome variables came from dichotomised measures of: (i) absence due to alcohol consumption; and (ii) broader sickness absence–absence due to illness or injury in the previous 3 months. Results: Risky (adjusted odds ratio 4.74 [95% CI 2.93–7.64]) and high-risk drinking (adjusted odds ratio 6.61 [95% CI 4.10–10.68]) were linked to increased odds of alcohol-related absence. Higher HED frequency was significantly associated with alcohol-related and broader sickness absenteeism. No significant associations exist between regular alcohol consumption and broader sickness absence in fully adjusted models. Discussion and Conclusions: Findings suggest that only HED is linked to broader sickness absence. However, there is a strong dose–response association between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related absences for both consumption measures amongst Australian workers. Population-level policies that reduce alcohol consumption to moderate level and less frequent HED might address workplace absenteeism.
On the contact conditions for the charge profile in the theory of the electrical double layer for nonsymmetrical electrolytes
Creators: name: Holovko, M.
name: di Caprio, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The contact value of the charge profile for nonsymmetrical electrolytes is presented as the sum of three contributions. One of them is the normal component of the Maxwell electrostatic stress tensor. The second one is the surface electrostatic property defined as the integral of the product of the gradient of the electrical potential and the density distribution function of coions. The third term is the bulk contribution defined by the sum for anions and for cations of the product of their charge and their partial pressure. For noncharged surfaces only the last two are present and have the same sign in the case of size asymmetry. In the case of charge asymmetry the contact value of the charge profile is the result of the competitions of bulk and surface terms in which the bulk term is dominant. Using both the contact theorems for the density and the charge profiles, the exact expressions for the contact values of the profiles of coions and counterions are obtained and some related properties are discussed.
description: 5 pages
Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates in Strongly Anharmonic Traps
Creators: name: Correggi, M.
name: Rindler-Daller, T.
name: Yngvason, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q55, 47J30, 76M23

description: We study a rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate in a strongly anharmonic trap (flat trap with a finite radius) in the framework of 2D Gross-Pitaevskii theory. We write the coupling constant for the interactions between the gas atoms as $1/ε^2$ and we are interested in the limit $ε\to 0$ (TF limit) with the angular velocity $Ω$ depending on $ε$. We derive rigorously the leading asymptotics of the ground state energy and the density profile when $Ω$ tends to infinity as a power of $1/ε$. If $Ω(ε)=Ω_0/ε$ a ``hole'' (i.e., a region where the density becomes exponentially small as $1/ε\to\infty$) develops for $Ω_0$ above a certain critical value. If $Ω(ε)\gg 1/ε$ the hole essentially exhausts the container and a ``giant vortex'' develops with the density concentrated in a thin layer at the boundary. While we do not analyse the detailed vortex structure we prove that rotational symmetry is broken in the ground state for ${\rm const.}|\logε|
description: LaTex2e, 28 pages, revised version to be published in Journal of Mathematical Physics
GrailQuest & HERMES: Hunting for Gravitational Wave Electromagnetic Counterparts and Probing Space-Time Quantum Foam
Creators: name: Burderi, L.
name: Di Salvo, T.
name: Sanna, A.
name: Fiore, F.
name: Riggio, A.
name: Gambino, A. F.
name: HERMES-TP, the
name: Collaborations, HERMES-SP
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GrailQuest (Gamma-ray Astronomy International Laboratory for Quantum Exploration of Space-Time) is an ambitious astrophysical mission concept that uses a fleet of small satellites whose main objective is to search for a dispersion law for light propagation in vacuo. Within Quantum Gravity theories, different models for space-time quantization predict relative discrepancies of the speed of photons w.r.t. the speed of light that depend on the ratio of the photon energy to the Planck energy. This ratio is as small as 1E-23 for photons in the gamma-ray band (100 keV). Therefore, to detect this effect, light must propagate over enormous distances and the experiment must have extraordinary sensitivity. Gamma-Ray Bursts, occurring at cosmological distances, could be used to detect this tiny signature of space-time granularity. This can be obtained by coherently combine a huge number of small instruments distributed in space to act as a single detector of unprecedented effective area. This is the first example of high-energy distributed astronomy: a new concept of modular observatory of huge overall collecting area consisting in a fleet of small satellites in low orbits, with sub-microsecond time resolution and wide energy band (keV-MeV). The enormous number of collected photons will allow to effectively search these energy dependent delays. Moreover, GrailQuest will allow to perform temporal triangulation of impulsive events with arc-second positional accuracies: an extraordinary sensitive X-ray/Gamma all-sky monitor crucial for hunting the elusive electromagnetic counterparts of Gravitational Waves, that will play a paramount role in the future of Multi-messenger Astronomy. A pathfinder of GrailQuest is already under development through the HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) project: a fleet of six 3U cube-sats to be launched by the end of 2022.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures, Proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020
Corporate and managerial private interests as motives for corporate political donations in Australia
Creators: name: Lu, Yi
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: JQ4081.L8 2012
subject: Corporations Political activityAustralia
subject: Campaign funds Australia

description: This thesis examines corporate political donations in relation to corporate interest motives and managerial private interest motives, and the moderating effects of corporate governance mechanisms. Corporate interest motives are represented by measures of exposure to decision-making by government and its agencies. The private interest motives of managers and directors are proxied by the degree of corporate political donation influence from the professional and social networks of managers and directors. To examine the effects of corporate governance mechanisms, I use number of blockholders, composition of board of directors and directors' shareholdings as potential monitors. I apply panel regression techniques to the corporate political donations of a sample of large listed Australian corporations during 2000-2007. The results suggest both corporate and private interests were important motives for corporate political donations for the study period, with weak evidence of the moderating effects of some corporate governance mechanisms. With respect to corporate interest motives, the results are consistent with the proposition that corporations make political donations to increase the likelihood of obtaining favourable decisions. I find the level of corporate political donations is positively associated with a corporation's exposure to government decision-making in parliament. I do not find a significant association between donations and a corporation's receipt of government contracts, or a corporation's exposure to government proceedings outside parliament. With respect to private interest motives, the results suggest managers and directors are influenced by both their professional networks and social networks (or individual social preferences) in making corporate political donations. I find the levels of corporate political donations are positively associated with managers' and directors' relationships (interlocks) with other donating corporations and managers' and directors' participation on non-profit boards. With respect to corporate governance mechanisms, the results suggest that monitoring by substantial blockholders reduces the extent to which private interests (proxied by managers' interlocks with other donating firms and managers' participation on non-profit boards) influence a corporation's donations, but neither board independence nor executive and non-executive directors' shareholdings significantly moderate donation behaviour. In some results, directors' shareholdings appear to aggravate the effect of private interest motivations on donations in a manner consistent with increased management control and entrenchment, rather than alignment of interests. When non-executive directors are heavily tied to other donating firms, increasing their shareholdings increases the impact of the ties on donation levels.
Robust asteroseismic properties of the bright planet host HD 38529
Creators: name: Ball, Warrick H.
name: Chaplin, William J.
name: Nielsen, Martin B.
name: González-Cuesta, Lucia
name: Mathur, Savita
name: Santos, Ângela R. G.
name: García, Rafael
name: Buzasi, Derek
name: Mosser, Benoît
name: Deal, Morgan
name: Stokholm, Amalie
name: Mosumgaard, Jakob Rørsted
name: Aguirre, Victor Silva
name: Nsamba, Benard
name: Campante, Tiago
name: Cunha, Margarida S.
name: Ong, Joel
name: Basu, Sarbani
name: Örtel, Sibel
name: Orhan, Z. Çelik
name: Yıldız, Mutlu
name: Stassun, Keivan
name: Kane, Stephen R.
name: Huber, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is recording short-cadence, high duty-cycle timeseries across most of the sky, which presents the opportunity to detect and study oscillations in interesting stars, in particular planet hosts. We have detected and analysed solar-like oscillations in the bright G4 subgiant HD 38529, which hosts an inner, roughly Jupiter-mass planet on a 14.3 d orbit and an outer, low-mass brown dwarf on a 2136 d orbit. We combine results from multiple stellar modelling teams to produce robust asteroseismic estimates of the star's properties, including its mass $M = 1.48 \pm 0.04 \mathrm{M}_\odot$, radius $R = 2.68 \pm 0.03 \mathrm{R}_\odot$ and age $t = 3.07 \pm 0.39 \,\mathrm{Gyr}$. Our results confirm that HD 38529 has a mass near the higher end of the range that can be found in the literature and also demonstrate that precise stellar properties can be measured given shorter timeseries than produced by CoRoT, Kepler or K2.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS