cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Heavy and light scalar leptoquarks in proton decay
Creators: name: Dorsner, Ilja
name: Fajfer, Svjetlana
name: Kosnik, Nejc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We list scalar leptoquarks that mediate proton decay via renormalizable couplings to the Standard Model fermions. We employ a general basis of baryon number violating operators to parameterize contributions of each leptoquark towards proton decay. This then sets the stage for investigation of bounds on the leptoquark couplings to fermions with respect to the most current Super Kamiokande results on proton stability. We quantify if, and when, it is necessary to have leptoquark masses close to a scale of grand unification in the realistic SU(5) and flipped SU(5) frameworks. The most and the least conservative lower bounds on the leptoquark masses are then presented. We furthermore single out a leptoquark without phenomenologically dangerous tree-level exchanges that might explain discrepancy of the forward-backward asymmetries in $t \bar t$ production observed at Tevatron, if relatively light. The same state could also play significant role in explaining muon anomalous magnetic moment. We identify contributions of this leptoquark to dimension-six operators, mediated through a box diagram, and tree-level dimension-nine operators, that would destabilize proton if sizable leptoquark and diquark couplings were to be simultaneously present.
description: 26 pp, 2 figures, extensive expansion of Section V with new results
title: Отклик на события Русско-японской войны в газете «Курский листок» (1904—1905) в контексте идей эпохи
Creators: name: Михайлова, Ирина
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Данная статья обращена к одному из региональных изданий — газете «Курский листок» (1904—1905 гг.), на примере которой рассматривается ценностный аспект отклика на события Русско-японской войны 1904—1905 гг., воплощенный в малых газетных жанрах прозы и поэзии. Художественные тексты, отразившие отношение курских литераторов к войне, органично вписываются в нарратив о Русско-японской войне, а также расширяют представление об истории развития литературы курского локуса начала ХХ столетия. Анализ текстов позволяет установить, как они способствовали формированию массового сознания читателей региона, а также стимулировали необходимость сохранения памяти о военной кампании 1904—1905 годов.
Plain language summary for the manuscript: Long‐term survival and safety of elranatamab in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma: Update from the MagnetisMM‐3 study
Creators: name: Tomasson, Michael H.
name: Iida, Shinsuke
name: Niesvizky, Ruben
name: Mohty, Mohamad
name: Bahlis, Nizar J.
name: Martinez-Lopez, Joaquin
name: Koehne, Guenther
name: Rodriguez-Otero, Paula
name: Miles Prince, H.
name: Viqueira, Andrea
name: Leip, Eric
name: Conte, Umberto
name: Sullivan, Sharon T.
name: Lesokhin, Alexander M.
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 321104
subject: Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy)
classificationCode: 321106
subject: Haematological tumours

description: This is a plain language summary (PLS) of an article published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. This PLS is not peer-reviewed. The publisher of the original manuscript was not involved in the preparation of this PLS and has neither reviewed not approved its content.
Everyday Heritage
Creators: name: Spoormans, Lidwine
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2023

description: In improving the sustainability of our built environment, European institutions emphasize the importance of protecting and advancing cultural values. As most of the stock is not listed, nor is its heritage significance assessed, future sustainable developments risk neglecting present attributes, causing the loss of resources and their significance. This problem applies to 1965-1985 Dutch housing, comprising over 30% of the stock, with no clarity on its heritage significance. This thesis aims to reveal significant attributes of residential neighbourhoods, built in The Netherlands between 1965-1985, as identified by involved stakeholders. A research framework integrating attributes, stakeholders and scales, is used to examine case studies in Almere Haven and Amsterdam Zuidoost. The identification of attributes results from open-ended questioning by multiple participatory methods. A process of inductive analysis, classifying and relating attributes revealed categories, chains, and networks of attributes, representing a shared neighbourhood narrative. Results show that attributes can be identified on successive scale levels in tangible and intangible categories. Participants convey significance to attributes originally intended and to attributes added or changed later, to attributes specific to 1965-1985 neighbourhoods and to more generic ones. Different stakeholder groups and individuals do not disagree in their assessments but focus on different attribute categories and scale levels. By combining a broad definition of heritage and participatory methods to identify attributes, this thesis bridges the gap between listed heritage and everyday neighbourhoods. Further developing and applying this approach can support the sustainable development of our built environment, informed by heritage significance, regardless of heritage status.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 21 (2023): Everyday Heritage
White picket fences : whiteness, urban Aboriginal women and housing market discrimination in Kelowna, British Columbia
Creators: name: Lewis, Sheila Elaine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis analyses hegemonic whiteness as a socio-spatial structure and discursive formation, and the way that whiteness interlocks with other axes of identity, such as class and gender, to affect accessibility to the housing market for urban Aboriginal women in Kelowna, BC, Canada. Twelve participants were recruited and interviewed through the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society. The research methods for this thesis involved discourse analysis of embodied practices (after Kirsten Simonsen). Interviews with Aboriginal women about their experiences in the housing market revealed two clear patterns of gendered, classed, and racialized divisions of urban space. Aboriginal women note that the housing search, and subsequent residence in Kelowna (often as opposed to residence on a local ‘Indian Reserve’ outside the city), places them in a situation that they define as being under surveillance. Aboriginal women are particularly aware of how they are being watched or monitored by what most of them refer to as the ‘mainstream society’ in Kelowna, by which they mean white residents of the city. In a similar fashion, Aboriginal women are very clear about the fact that their participation in the housing market is racialized, and they are subject to a number of problematic constructions of their identity when searching for housing. In recounting Aboriginal women’s experiences, I attempt to provide an analysis of the classed, gendered, and racialized processes that work in interlocking fashion to produce the white landscape of housing in Kelowna, BC, Canada.
title: Evolution der Informationsinfrastruktur
title: Kooperation zwischen Bibliothek und Wissenschaft
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Neuroth, Heike
name: Lossau, Norbert
name: Rapp, Andrea
Publisher: name: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, Glückstadt.; Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Year: 2013
Subjects: Informationsinfrastruktur
Bibliotheken
Wissenschaft

description: Die Festschrift zum zehnjährigen Bestehen der Abteilung Forschung und Entwicklung (F & E) der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen in 2012 resümiert entlang ausgewählter Meilensteine die Arbeit im vergangenen Jahrzehnt. Dabei begibt sie sich auf die Spuren des Wandels im Leitbild wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken. Gemeinsam mit Partnern aus der Wissenschaft wurden zahlreiche, wegweisende Projekte auf dem Gebiet der digitalen Forschung vorangebracht. Dieser Pionierarbeit in der deutschen Bibliothekslandschaft wird in 19 Aufsätzen von über 30 Autorinnen und Autoren nachgegangen.
title: Silchester Insula IX: The Claudio-Neronian Occupation of the Iron Age Oppidum
title: The Early Roman Occupation at Silchester Insula IX
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Pankhurst, Nicholas
name: Durham, Emma E
name: Clarke, Amanda
name: Fulford, Michael
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2025

description: Britannia Monograph series, 33
description: How did a major nucleated settlement respond to the Roman conquest? Occupation of Silchester (Calleva) after the Roman invasion of south-east Britain in A.D. 43 shows remarkable continuity from the pre-Roman Iron Age oppidum. Although the settlement was crossed by strategic Roman roads, the network of lanes and compounds, crowded with round and rectangular buildings, otherwise remained little changed until c. A.D. 85. The contents of rubbish pits and wells give remarkable insights into the diet, occupations, identity and ritualistic behaviour of the inhabitants, while the richly varied provenances of the pottery and other finds reveal the local, regional and long-distance connections of the community. Although there is clear evidence of investment in the town in the reign of Nero, the pre-existing settlement was not swept away until the Roman street grid was established c. A.D. 85. This volume follows on from the publication of Late Iron Age Calleva, Britannia Monograph 32 (2018).
Some new approaches to infinite divisibility
Creators: name: Sapatinas, Theofanis
name: Shanbhag, Damodar N.
name: Gupta, Arjun K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 60E05, Secondary 62E10

description: Using an approach based, amongst other things, on Proposition 1 of Kaluza (1928), Goldie (1967) and, using a different approach based especially on zeros of polynomials, Steutel (1967) have proved that each nondegenerate distribution function (d.f.) $F$ (on $\RR$, the real line), satisfying $F(0-) = 0$ and $F(x) = F(0) + (1-F(0)) G(x)$, $x > 0$, where $G$ is the d.f. corresponding to a mixture of exponential distributions, is infinitely divisible. Indeed, Proposition 1 of Kaluza (1928) implies that any nondegenerate discrete probability distribution ${p_x: x= 0,1, ...}$ that is log-convex or, in particular, completely monotone, is compound geometric, and, hence, infinitely divisible. Steutel (1970), Shanbhag & Sreehari (1977) and Steutel & van Harn (2004, Chapter VI) have given certain extensions or variations of one or more of these results. Following a modified version of the C.R. Rao et al. (2009, Section 4) approach based on the Wiener-Hopf factorization, we establish some further results of significance to the literature on infinite divisibility.
description: 18 pages, no figures, To appear in the Electronic Journal of Probability
Robot Cooking - Transferring observations into a planning language: An automated approach in the field of cooking
Creators: name: Schmitz, Markus
name: Menz, Florian
name: Grunau, Ruben
name: Hüsing, Mathias
name: Corves, Burkhard
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2023

description: Promotionsvortrag RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
title: «Об этом и только об этом нужно рассказывать». Чеховское повествование в осмыслении Льва Шестова
Creators: name: Смирнова, Наталья
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Лев Шестов первым увидел в творчестве Чехова новые принципы мышления и построения краткого, фрагментарно-афористического повествования. Изначально замысел книги «Апофеоз беспочвенности» (1905) строился на контрасте двух фигур в русской литературе — Тургенева и Чехова. Но постепенно замысел получал новые ответвления: размышления о чеховских сюжетах, о судьбах чеховских героев, судьбе самого писателя. Впоследствии чеховская тема перемещается в знаменитую статью «Творчество из ничего» (1905), где Лев Шестов, развивая замысел «Апофеоза», осмысляет чеховское творчество, его стиль повествования, важнейшие доминанты мышления. Новые принципы чеховского рассказывания истории созвучны мысли философа о принципиальной незавершаемости, фрагментарности мира и жизни, человеческого существования. Следуя чеховской логике повествования, Шестов постоянно возвращается к ключевым фрагментам перечитываемого, сопрягает и сталкивает разные идеи, вырабатывая свой провокативный стиль мышления, впервые обоснованный в «Апофеозе беспочвенности».
Accuracy Analysis of Power Sensors in Compute Servers Using a High Precision Power Analyzer
Creators: name: Pitz, Manuel
name: Eiling, Niklas
name: Wege, Felix
name: Köster, Iris
name: Lankes, Stefan
name: Monti, Antonello
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Energy Efficient Computing
HPC
Heterogenous Computing
Power Analysis

description: ISC High Performance 2023, ISC 2023, Hamburg, Germany, 21 May 2023 - 25 May 2023
Supersymmetric Extension of the Snyder Algebra
Creators: name: Gouba, L.
name: Stern, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain a minimal supersymmetric extension of the Snyder algebra and study its representations. The construction differs from the general approach given in Hatsuda and Siegel ({\tt hep-th/0311002}), and does not utilize super-de Sitter groups. The spectra of the position operators are discrete, implying a lattice description of space, and the lattice is compatible with supersymmetry transformations.
description: 14 pages
Empathy and Compassion in the Medicine and Literature of the First and Second Centuries AD
Creators: name: Porter, Amber
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Literature--Classical
subject: Empathy
subject: compassion
subject: Aretaeus
subject: Medicine
subject: Emotions

description: This dissertation examines the emotions of empathy and compassion in the first and second centuries AD of the Greco-Roman world. It focuses on the medical texts of the period, but also explores the other genres of the ancient Greek novel and moral philosophy. Despite lacking a specific word for it, the first and second-century Greeks and Romans understood and expressed empathy in their writings. Compassion, on the other hand, does have a vocabulary. The terms which are used to express it often conform to traditional Greek definitions; however, many instances also show that it has widened its application as well. There also appears to be a significant amount of ‘cross-chatter’ between some of the literature in this era. The medical writer Aretaeus demonstrates a high level of empathy and compassion towards his patients and their families. A contextual and philological analysis of each passage exhibiting these emotions serves to highlight and evaluate Aretaeus’ empathy and compassion and the conditions that elicit these manifestations of emotion in his text. Soranus and Rufus, two other contemporary medical writers, show an acknowledgement and awareness of patients’ emotions, beliefs and attitudes as well. They also exhibit compassion within the construct of the patient-physician relationship. Two other physicians, Caelius Aurelianus and Scribonius Largus, take compassion to a new level, using the terms misericordia and humanitas, which serve to connect with the emotion of compassion and the concept of medical ethics. Plutarch, a moral philosopher, and the novelists, Achilles Tatius and Chariton, exhibit this ‘cross-chatter’ between genres of the period. Plutarch’s Moralia shows his compassionate concern with the moral implications of breeding and slaughtering animals. Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe contains many references to the concept of φιλανθρωπία as an expression of mercy, compassion, benevolence and humanity. Achilles Tactius’ Leucippe and Clitophon explores the power one’s suffering has to affect another through empathy and compassion. Finally, Aretaeus’ ability to ‘feel’ his way into organs and diseases through personification demonstrates his empathy. Taken all together, this suggests that a permeability of genres appears to have occurred in this era whereby empathy and compassion became a common concern.
The experience of adolescents and emerging adults living with a parent with an acquired brain injury
Creators: name: Freeman, Erin Aiofe
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education--Guidance and Counseling
subject: Psychology--Developmental
subject: parental brain injury
subject: Adolescence
subject: emerging adulthood
subject: Family
subject: resilience
subject: Heuristic inquiry

description: Although research studies have investigated the impact of an individual’s acquired brain injury (ABI) on spouses, parents, and siblings, little is known about the experience of adolescent and emerging adult children living with a parent with an ABI. Using heuristic inquiry, this study was undertaken to provide an understanding of what it is like for adolescents and emerging adult children to grow up living with a parent with an ABI. Six sons and daughters, aged 18-32 years, who were adolescents at the time of their parent’s ABI participated in semi-structured interviews. From their narratives, four categories (Impact, Changes in Family System, External Supportive Resources, Coping) were developed to describe the related elements that constitute the experience of living with a parent with an ABI. The findings are discussed in relation to existing literature and new understandings arising from the study. Implications for theory, research, and practice are presented.
The road to gamergate: the history of gender stereotyping in video game culture, 1970-2000 and beyond
Creators: name: Derr, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Computer technology has not always been dominated by men. Prior to 1984, women earning computer science degrees skyrocketed to nearly 37%. After this peak, the numbers dwindled down to just 17% by 2012. What happened here?This paper tells the story of how women grew to become more and more marginalized not only from computing, but from the culture of video games that would become extremely popular as home computers became more available to the public. This story traces how gender roles and stereotypes go on to gatekeep women from participating in video game and computer culture from the 1970s and well into the 2000s and beyond. This gatekeeping is perpetuated through the attitudes and perspectives of men who were typically the developers of both computer hardware, software and video games. Public attitudes on violence and sexuality also contributed to the stereotyping of both young boys and girls, which was further reinforced through the narratives of the media. This story aims to provide agency to the voices of female gamers who were overlooked in their contemporary culture as well as in the vast history of video games.
Translating the Cantor set by a random
Creators: name: Dougherty, Randall
name: Lutz, Jack
name: Mauldin, R. Daniel
name: Teutsch, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68Q30

description: We determine the constructive dimension of points in random translates of the Cantor set. The Cantor set "cancels randomness" in the sense that some of its members, when added to Martin-Lof random reals, identify a point with lower constructive dimension than the random itself. In particular, we find the Hausdorff dimension of the set of points in a Cantor set translate with a given constructive dimension.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE CARDIO-THORACIC RATIO AND WEIGHT AMONG STUDENTS OF DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY, ABRAKA
Creators: name: ENYE L. A
name: ANIBOR E
name: IGHOGBOJA O. O
name: SAKA O. S
name: ADEKEYE A. O
name: SAKA A. A
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cardio-Thoracic Ratio; Weight; Abraka; Chest Radiographs.

description: Abstract
Background: The cardio-thoracic ratio (CTR) is a method of practically determining the heart size by relating it to the total thoracic width and it is expressed as a ratio. The term body weight could be referred to the diet or physical activities the individual engages in. This study determined the relationship between an individual's CTR and weight. Methods: The study was carried out on 200 students of Delta State University, Abraka. Their chest radiographs were gotten and the CTR was measured and calculated. The weights of the individuals were also measured. Results: The research result presents that the correlation between CTR and weight is poor, with r = 0.086 and 0.115 for male and female respectively. Conclusion: This therefore shows that cardiothoracic ratio is least affected by the variations of body weight.
Connected Quandles Associated with Pointed Abelian Groups
Creators: name: Clark, W. Edwin
name: Elhamdadi, Mohamed
name: Hou, Xiang-dong
name: Saito, Masahico
name: Yeatman, Timothy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A quandle is a self-distributive algebraic structure that appears in quasi-group and knot theories. For each abelian group A and c \in A we define a quandle G(A, c) on \Z_3 \times A. These quandles are generalizations of a class of non-medial Latin quandles defined by V. M. Galkin so we call them Galkin quandles. Each G(A, c) is connected but not Latin unless A has odd order. G(A, c) is non-medial unless 3A = 0. We classify their isomorphism classes in terms of pointed abelian groups, and study their various properties. A family of symmetric connected quandles is constructed from Galkin quandles, and some aspects of knot colorings by Galkin quandles are also discussed.
Bringing improved person metadata into digital archives
Creators: name: Jeff Good
name: Pierpaolo Di Carlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Metadata
language documentation

description: Bringing improved person metadata into digital archives

Jeff Good & Pierpaolo Di Carlo

Presented 5 October 2022 at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities at the Conference Where Do We Need to Go From Here? - Language Documentation and Archiving,  in the UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages
Star Formation Rates in Molecular Clouds and the Nature of the Extragalactic Scaling Relations
Creators: name: Lada, Charles J.
name: Forbrich, Jan
name: Lombardi, Marco
name: Alves, Joao F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate scaling relations between star formation rates and molecular gas masses for both local Galactic clouds and a sample of external galaxies. We specifically consider relations between the star formation rates and measurements of dense, as well as total, molecular gas masses. We argue that there is a fundamental empirical scaling relation that directly connects the local star formation process with that operating globally within galaxies. Specifically, the total star formation rate in a molecular cloud or galaxy is linearly proportional to the mass of dense gas within the cloud or galaxy. This simple relation, first documented in previous studies, holds over a span of mass covering nearly nine orders of magnitude and indicates that the rate of star formation is directly controlled by the amount of dense molecular gas that can be assembled within a star formation complex. We further show that the star formation rates and total molecular masses, characterizing both local clouds and galaxies, are correlated over similarly large scales of mass and can be described by a family of linear star formation scaling laws, parameterized by $f_{DG}$, the fraction of dense gas contained within the clouds or galaxies. That is, the underlying star formation scaling law is always linear for clouds and galaxies with the same dense gas fraction. These considerations provide a single unified framework for understanding the relation between the standard (non-linear) extragalactic Schmidt-Kennicutt scaling law, that is typically derived from CO observations of the gas, and the linear star formation scaling law derived from HCN observations of the dense gas.
description: 14 pages + 2 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ 16 December 2011
Investigating the effect of proteoglycan 4 on hyaluronan solution properties using confocal fluorescence recovery after photobleaching
Creators: name: Bloom, Adam
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Hyaluronan
subject: Proteoglycan 4
subject: Synovial Fluid
subject: FRAP

description: Hyaluronan (HA) and proteoglycan 4 (PRG4) are vital macromolecular constituents of synovial fluid (SF) that contribute synergistically to its biophysical properties. The objective of this thesis was to use confocal fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) to determine whether PRG4 will decrease the permeability of simple HA solutions due to specific interactions between PRG4 and HA polymers in solution. Bovine and recombinant human PRG4 caused HA solutions of all concentrations to become less permeable to tracer molecules. This effect, specific to PRG4 and not seen with a control protein, was not dependent on protein structure as determined by reducing and alkylating PRG4. Additionally, confocal FRAP was successfully employed to study human SF samples of interest. These results demonstrate PRG4 can alter solution properties of HA, possibly due to entanglement through binding and/or HA crowding PRG4 into a self-assembled network. These results contribute to the understanding of PRG4’s role in SF.
Ground and excited states Gamow-Teller strength distributions of iron isotopes and associated capture rates for core-collapse simulations
Creators: name: Nabi, Jameel-Un
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports on the microscopic calculation of ground and excited states Gamow-Teller (GT) strength distributions, both in the electron capture and electron decay direction, for $^{54,55,56}$Fe. The associated electron and positron capture rates for these isotopes of iron are also calculated in stellar matter. These calculations were recently introduced and this paper is a follow-up which discusses in detail the GT strength distributions and stellar capture rates of key iron isotopes. The calculations are performed within the framework of the proton-neutron quasiparticle random phase approximation (pn-QRPA) theory. The pn-QRPA theory allows a microscopic \textit{state-by-state} calculation of GT strength functions and stellar capture rates which greatly increases the reliability of the results. For the first time experimental deformation of nuclei are taken into account. In the core of massive stars isotopes of iron, $^{54,55,56}$Fe, are considered to be key players in decreasing the electron-to-baryon ratio ($Y_{e}$) mainly via electron capture on these nuclide. The structure of the presupernova star is altered both by the changes in $Y_{e}$ and the entropy of the core material. Results are encouraging and are compared against measurements (where possible) and other calculations. The calculated electron capture rates are in overall good agreement with the shell model results. During the presupernova evolution of massive stars, from oxygen shell burning stages till around end of convective core silicon burning, the calculated electron capture rates on $^{54}$Fe are around three times bigger than the corresponding shell model rates. The calculated positron capture rates, however, are suppressed by two to five orders of magnitude.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures, 10 tables
Downhole Weight on Bit Prediction with Analytical Model and Finite Element Method
Creators: name: Lei, Lingyun
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Downhole Weight on Bit
subject: Analytical Model
subject: Finite Element Method

description: Horizontal drilling is an innovative technology applied for exploiting unconventional resources in North-America and around the world. To acquire better drilling performance, weight on bit (WOB) needs to be accurate and monitored. However, the weight on bit recorded on the surface panel is most often incorrect because wellbore friction along the drillstring is not considered. Drillstring force modeling computer simulation can be utilized to economically determine the actual WOB value. In this thesis, two drillstring force models are programmed and compared: an analytical model and a finite element method (FEM). In conclusion the analytical model computes faster, but FEM is more accurate. Simulations are performed to verify and compare both methods, where friction factors and WOB are calculated for a horizontal well in Western Canada, in a depth interval from 2500m to 3800m. The results from both methods are comparable to results obtained from measured downhole WOB (DOWB).
Effect of Text Structure Instruction with Integrated Discourse Structure Graphic Organizers on Development of Reading Comprehension of Expository Texts in Advanced ESL Students
Creators: name: Bishop, Olena
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Text structure
subject: Graphic organizers
subject: adult learning

description: Inspired by and oriented towards practical teaching, this mixed-method design-based research investigated how explicit 8-week instruction in the discourse structure graphic organizer (DSGO) strategy and instruction in the global text structure (GTS) strategy affected reading comprehension of informational text among advanced adult English as Second Language (ESL) students. The intervention was conducted among 24 students of the Language Instruction to Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program, and included transferring the target strategies to the level of participants’ independent use. Data, collected with the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic Reading module test, summary of expository text, and closed and open-ended questionnaires, were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively by application of manual tools and computer software. As a result of the instructional intervention, participants started using the GTS and the DSGO strategies independently, without assistance from the teacher, and demonstrated noteworthy increase in reading comprehension of authentic expository texts.
Dynamics of a nano-scale rotor driven by single-electron tunneling
Creators: name: Croy, A.
name: Eisfeld, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate theoretically the dynamics and the charge transport properties of a rod-shaped nano-scale rotor, which is driven by a similar mechanism as the nanomechanical single-electron transistor (NEMSET). We show that a static electric potential gradient can lead to self-excitation of oscillatory or continuous rotational motion. The relevant parameters of the device are identified and the dependence of the dynamics on these parameters is studied. We further discuss how the dynamics is related to the measured current through the device. Notably, in the oscillatory regime, we find a negative differential conductance. The current-voltage characteristics can be used to infer details of the surrounding environment which is responsible for damping.
Casimir-Polder-like force on an atom outside a Schwarzschild black hole
Creators: name: Zhang, Jialin
name: Yu, Hongwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate, in the framework of open quantum systems, the ground state energy-level shift for a static two-level atom outside a spherically symmetric black hole in interaction with fluctuating massless scalar fields in the Boulware and Unruh vacuums. We find that the energy-level shift is position-dependent and thus gives rise to a force on the atom besides the classical gravitational force. For the case of the Boulware vacuum which represents a star that has not collapsed through its event horizon, this force is attractive near the horizon and is repulsive far away from the black hole with a behavior of $r^{-3}$ . For the case of the Unruh vacuum which represents a radiating black hole, we find that the contribution to the Casimir-Polder-like force due to the presence of Hawking radiation is always attractive and, remarkably, this attractive force diverges at the event horizon.
description: typos corrected, version to be published in PRA
Metriplectic Framework for Dissipative Magneto-Hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Materassi, Massimo
name: Tassi, Emanuele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The metriplectic framework, which permits to formulate an algebraic structure for dissipative systems, is applied to visco-resistive Magneto-Hydrodynamics (MHD), adapting what had already been done for non-ideal Hydrodynamics (HD). The result is obtained by extending the HD symmetric bracket and free energy to include magnetic field dynamics and resistive dissipation. The correct equations of motion are obtained once one of the Casimirs of the Poisson bracket for ideal MHD is identified with the total thermodynamical entropy of the plasma. The metriplectic framework of MHD is shown to be invariant under the Galileo Group. The metriplectic structure also permits to obtain the asymptotic equilibria toward which the dynamics of the system evolves. This scheme is finally adapted to the two-dimensional incompressible resistive MHD, that is of major use in many applications.
Captain Cupit's Boy: Slavery, Crime, and Courts in the 18th Century British Atlantic
Creators: name: Wood, Madeline
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: History--African
subject: History--European
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Atlantic
subject: Crime
subject: Vice-Admiralty

description: This dissertation uses the genre of microhistory to understand the issues of slavery and crime in the British Atlantic by focusing on a criminal trial in the Boston Vice-Admiralty Court in 1736. John Barnes, the captain of a slave ship voyaging from Rhode Island to the Guinea coast of Africa and on to the West Indies, in a violent rage, killed a young slave boy on the high seas. After the voyage, he was charged and tried for murder in Boston. The Court found Barnes guilty of murder and sentenced him to death, the only sentence it could impose for such a verdict. The nine Commissioners who sat with the judge in the trial recommended a respite of sentence for one year to allow Barnes time to apply to the King for a pardon, should he wish to do so. The story of the voyage and the trial is used to elucidate connections between England and Massachusetts through the focus of law relating to the slave trade and slavery in the 1730s. Themes of centre and periphery, the ethics of the slave trade, and the development of admiralty law regarding crime are explored by way of the people and processes involved in this overlooked event in British imperial and Massachusetts history. The Boston Court by indicting Barnes for murder treated the boy as a subject of the king for purposes of the trial in the Vice-Admiralty Court drawing on legal traditions based in natural law and Biblical authority rather than the newer Lockean Enlightenment idea of constant warfare between master and slave.
Can eating and body attitudes affect physiological health outcomes in premenopausal women? Prospective 2-year changes in bone, and relationships with ovulation, cortisol and blood pressure.
Creators: name: Bedford, Jennifer Lynn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Cognitive dietary restraint (CDR) is the perception that one is limiting food intake in an effort to achieve/maintain a perceived ideal body weight. Cross-sectional studies suggest CDR is associated with an increased frequency of subclinical ovulatory disturbances (%SOD; anovulation and luteal phase <10 days long) and lower bone mass, possibly mediated by cortisol, a stress hormone. This research was conducted to prospectively examine relationships among CDR, %SOD, 24-hour urinary free cortisol (UFC) and 2-year areal bone mineral density change (ΔaBMD) in non-obese, regularly-menstruating women, aged 19-35. To monitor %SOD, least-squares quantitative basal temperature (LS-QBT) analysis was used. LS-QBT was first further validated against urinary pregnanediol glucuronide (PdG), an indirect indicator of ovulation (n=40, Chapter 2). Relative to PdG, LS-QBT showed excellent detection of ovulatory cycles (97%) but poor detection of anovulatory cycles (25%). Estimated day of luteal onset was correlated between methods (r=0.8, P<0.001). Chapter 3 presents prospective findings (n=123). Women with higher CDR had higher %SOD (56% versus 34%, P<0.001) and higher UFC (28.0 µg/day versus 24.0 µg/day, P=0.021). ΔaBMD did not differ by CDR level. Women with higher %SOD had less positive lumbar spine (L1-4; 0.7% versus 1.9%, P=0.034) and hip (-0.6% versus 0.9%, P=0.001) ΔaBMD, and higher CDR scores (8.7 versus 7.1, P=0.04). UFC was not associated with %SOD or ΔaBMD. Whether eating/body attitudes (EBA) were associated with 12-hour daytime ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) was explored as a secondary objective (n=120, Chapter 4). Women with negative EBA had higher diastolic ABP and mean arterial pressure, independently of weight loss effort. Finally, at baseline (n=137, Chapter 5), UFC was inversely associated with total body bone mineral content (BMC; r= -0.30, P<0.001) and aBMD (r= -0.27, P=0.003); L1-4 aBMD (r= -0.19, P=0.035) and BMC (r= -0.18, P=0.049); and hip BMC (r= -0.23, P=0.011), after adjustment for potential confounders. In summary, findings suggest CDR and other negative EBA may be associated with adverse health outcomes including higher ABP and %SOD. Furthermore, more frequent SOD, which are not apparent to women, were associated with less positive ΔaBMD. However, cortisol may not be the only or most important mediator of these relationships.
К ВОПРОСУ О РЕФОРМЕ СИСТЕМЫ ПРЕПОДАВАНИЯ АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА В ВУЗАХ И ПОДГОТОВКИ ИННОВАЦИОННЫХ КАДРОВ В РАМКАХ СТРАТЕГИИ «ВЫХОДА ВОВНЕ» КИТАЙСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ
Creators: name: ЯО ЛИ
Publisher: name: Современное педагогическое образование
Year: 2020
Subjects: КИТАЙСКАЯ КУЛЬТУРА
ПРЕПОДАВАНИЕ АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА
ВОСПИТАНИЕ
КАДРЫ
МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ ОБМЕН
CHINESE CULTURE
ENGLISH TEACHING
CULTIVATION
TALENT
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION

description: Сегодня необходимость развития инновационных талантов студентов представляет собой серьезную проблему для преподавателей иностранных языков в колледжах и университетах. Их задача - выполнять работу по подготовке высококлассных кадров для задач развития страны. Как указал лидер КНР Си Цзиньпин, процесс обучения высококлассных специалистов должен включать пять подсистем: систему дисциплин, систему обучения, систему учебных материалов, систему управления и идеологическую и политическую систему. В данной статье описывается вариант реформирования системы преподавания и развития инновационных кадров в Институте иностранных языков и других институтах Шэньянского политехнического университета. Хотя цель состоит в том, чтобы улучшить способности учащихся слушать, говорить, читать, писать и переводить, учебная программа по английскому языку тесно интегрирована с традиционной китайской культурой в части учебных программ, целей обучения, выбора учебников, аудиторных занятий, тестирования и оценки. Студенты получают более глубокое понимание содержания китайской культуры. Они смогут рассказывать китайские истории на английском языке, улучшат свои способности в межкультурном обмене и сыграют роль в реализации стратегии «Выход китайской культуры вовне». Студенты также будут вооружены инструментами и уверенностью, чтобы представить Китай международному сообществу. Проект реформы преподавания английского языка послужит ориентиром для колледжей и университетов провинции Ляонин в достижении цели подготовки высококлассных кадров в сфере высшего образования
A New Technique to Backup and Restore DBMS using XML and .NET Technologies
Creators: name: Kadry, Seifedine
name: Smaili, Mohamad
name: Kassem, Hussam
name: Hayek, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we proposed a new technique for backing up and restoring different Database Management Systems (DBMS). The technique is enabling to backup and restore a part of or the whole database using a unified interface using ASP.NET and XML technologies. It presents a Web Solution allowing the administrators to do their jobs from everywhere, locally or remotely. To show the importance of our solution, we have taken two case studies, oracle 11g and SQL Server 2008.
ABSENTEIZM IJTIMOIY HODISA SIFATIDA
Creators: name: Jiyanmuratova Gulnoz Sherbutayevna
name: Nurqulov Bunyod G‘Ofir O‘G‘Li
Publisher: name: Tafakkur manzili
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada bugungi kunda bir qator ijtimoiy-gumanitar fanlarning asosiy muhokama va tadqiqot mavzusiga aylangan siyosiy hayotda ishtirok etishdan bosh tortish masalasi, ya’ni absenteizm fenomeni, uning mazmun-mohiyati, strukturasi, namoyon bo‘lishi shakllari, unga ta’sir ko‘rsatuvchi obyektiv va subyektiv omillar qarab o‘tilgan.
Feasting on Whispers: Life Writing Towards a Pedagogy of Kinship
Creators: name: Latremouille, Jodi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Education--Philosophy of
subject: Life Writing
subject: Ecopedagogy
subject: Storytelling
subject: Hermeneutics
subject: Kinship
subject: Metaphor
subject: Education

description: This work of life writing seeks to question the overpowering myths of progress, competition and domination that continue to story the educational landscape. In exploring the possibilities of metaphor as a possible response to these dominant myths, this collection of narrative and poetic pieces dwells within the relational truths of metaphor and poetic language that are often hidden in the dominant expository language of academia. In the context of Heidegger’s (1977) notion of “language [as] the house of Being” (p. 217), the principles of hermeneutics, Indigenous knowledges and ecological pedagogy come together to explore some of the possibilities for metaphorical modes of Being. This work delves into the ways in which the work of life writing might break down the language of isolation and invite teachers and students into scholarly conversations of kinship —with our cultural and educational traditions, our histories, our topics of study, the more-than-human world, and each other.
Coloniality and the global justice debate : a decolonial approach to global normative theorising
Creators: name: Hunfeld, Katharina Charlotte Martha
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Global justice
subject: Coloniality
subject: Epistemic injustice
subject: JC578.H8
subject: Justice
subject: Social justice
subject: Globalization--Moral and ethical aspects
subject: Decolonization
subject: Ubuntu (Philosophy)

description: Global justice continues to be one of the major fields of discussion in political philosophy, political theory, International Relations, and other subfields. While global justice is an academic area with an explicit global outlook, it is in no way a global debate: scholars at the centre of disciplinary theoretical debates do not hear or centre non-Western voices. Prevailing views about the ethics and politics of global justice reflect and continue to reinforce problematic ontological assumptions and unquestioned epistemic privileges aligned with knowledge- and norm-entrepreneurs in the Global North. This thesis advances two specific contributions to global normative thought. Firstly, I develop a decolonial critique of the mainstream global justice literature and contend that the virtually exclusive consideration of Western thought and the marginalisation of, for example, African thought in the global justice debate constitutes an instance of epistemic injustice. This thesis engages extensively with the notion of coloniality in order to understand and analyse the ways in which the global justice debate, as an academic discourse, implicitly reproduces those relations of power that emerged as a result of Empire, colonialism, and enslavement. Apart from foregrounding and problematising the pervasive, enduring epistemic traces of the colonial encounter in the debate on global justice, this thesis also makes a second, positive contribution, namely by engaging with African ubuntu thought as a constructive decolonial approach to global justice. Looking at the issues of epistemic injustice, global poverty, gender inequality, ecological justice, and the politics of time, I discuss the ways in which ubuntu is a particularly promising starting point for decentring and pluralising the dominant Western ontological framework underlying the debate. As a relational understanding of human existence, ubuntu calls attention to the importance of collective practices of care, community, and solidarity building, with significant potential for making visible and advancing decolonial efforts.
Excluded volume effects in macromolecular forces and ion-interface interactions
Creators: name: Buyukdagli, Sahin
name: Ala-Nissila, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A charged Yukawa liquid confined in a slit nanopore is studied in order to understand excluded volume effects in the interaction force between the pore walls. A previously developed self-consistent scheme (S. Buyukdagli el al., J. Stat. Mech. P05033 (2011)) and a new simpler variational procedure that self-consistently couple image forces, surface charge induced electric field and pore modified core interactions are used to this aim. For neutral pores, it is shown that with increasing pore size, the theory predicts a transition of the interplate pressure from an attractive to a strongly repulsive regime associated with an ionic packing state, an effect observed in previous Monte Carlo simulations for hard core charges. The role of the range of core interactions in the ionic rejection and interplate pressure is thoroughly analyzed. We show that the physics of the system can be split into two screening regimes. The ionic packing effect takes place in the regime of moderately screened core interactions characterized with the bare screening parameter of the Yukawa potential b<3/lB, where lB is the Bjerrum length. In the second regime of strongly screened core interactions b>3/lB, solvation forces associated with these interactions positively contribute to the ionic rejection driven by electrostatic forces and enhance the magnitude of the attractive pressure. The pronounced dependence of the interplate pressure and ionic partition coefficients on the magnitude and the range of core interactions indicates excluded volume effects as an important ion specificity and a non-negligible ingredient for the stability of macromolecules in electrolyte solutions.
description: Accepted for publication in J. Chem. Phys