cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The same fight, a different story : a comparative media framing analysis of the battle of Raqqa in the online coverage of CNN and RT
Creators: name: Swolfs, LJH
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: While the watchdog journalism ideal emphasises the importance of critical and objective news coverage to inform citizens and protect the democratic process, the coverage of political conflicts overseas can differ between nations and might reflect the agendas and narratives preferred by respective governments in power. Over the past few years, a rivalry has emerged between the United States and Russia over Syria with each country having conflicting interests in defeating the terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in its self-declared capital Raqqa. This thesis explores how the largest international news channels in the United States and Russia ‚Äö- CNN and RT ‚Äö- framed the Battle of Raqqa and to what extent their online coverage reflects the narratives of their respective government's foreign policy and ideology. This study not only extends the media framing theory by applying it to a recent conflict but also provides much-needed analysis comparing CNN with RT by directly comparing their online coverage of the defeat of the terrorist organisation in Raqqa. Moreover, it reveals preliminary findings on the under-researched news broadcaster RT. To examine how both news channels framed the battle, this thesis uses Semetko & Valkenburg's (2000) frame taxonomy. The valence of the news frames and the sources have also been analysed. Overall, the study found that CNN framed the battle positively by using the conflict frame to emphasise the importance of the battle, while RT stressed the civilian casualties inflicted by the United States-led coalition by using the responsibility frame, which puts the battle in a negative light. These findings suggest that the coverage of both news channels reflects the agendas and narratives preferred by their respective governments, which raises concerns about the idealised role of journalists as watchdogs of society and may invite accusations of biased reporting.
Probing the accretion disk and central engine structure of NGC4258 with Suzaku and XMM-Newton observations
Creators: name: Reynolds, Christopher S.
name: Nowak, Michael A.
name: Markoff, Sera
name: Tueller, Jack
name: Wilms, Joern
name: Young, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [abridged] We present an X-ray study of the low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (AGN) in NGC4258 using data from Suzaku, XMM-Newton, and the Swift/BAT survey. We find that signatures of X-ray reprocessing by cold gas are very weak in the spectrum of this Seyfert-2 galaxy; a weak, narrow fluorescent-Kalpha emission line of cold iron is robustly detected in both the Suzaku and XMM-Newton spectra but at a level much below that of most other Seyfert-2 galaxies. We conclude that the circumnuclear environment of this AGN is very "clean" and lacks the Compton-thick obscuring torus of unified Seyfert schemes. From the narrowness of the iron line, together with evidence for line flux variability between the Suzaku and XMM-Newton observations, we constrain the line emitting region to be between $3\times 10^3r_g$ and $4\times 10^4r_g$ from the black hole. We show that the observed properties of the iron line can be explained if the line originates from the surface layers of a warped accretion disk. In particular, we present explicit calculations of the expected iron line from a disk warped by Lens-Thirring precession from a misaligned central black hole. Finally, the Suzaku data reveal clear evidence for large amplitude 2-10keV variability on timescales of 50ksec as well as smaller amplitude flares on timescales as short as 5-10ksec. If associated with accretion disk processes, such rapid variability requires an origin in the innermost regions of the disk ($r\approx 10r_g$ or less).
description: 10 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
การประเมินผลกระบวนการปฏิบัติงานโครงการพัฒนารูปแบบจังหวัดเพื่อปฏิบัติการบริการป้องกันควบคุมโรคไม่ติดต่อ ปี 2547
Creators: name: พรรณี ทิพย์ธราดล
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2550
Subjects: การประเมินผลกระบวนการปฏิบัติงานโครงการ

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 33, 1, 1-9
Plasma focus based repetitive source of fusion neutrons and hard x-rays
Creators: name: Raspa, V
name: Di Lorenzo, F
name: Knoblauch, P
name: Lazarte, A
name: Tartaglione, A
name: Clausse, A
name: Moreno, C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A plasma focus device capable of operating at 0.2 pulses per second during several minutes is used as a source of hard x-rays and fast neutrons. An experimental demonstration of the use of the neutrons emissions for radiation probing of hydrogenated substances is presented, showing a particular application in detecting water concentrations differences in the proximity of the device by elastic scattering. Moreover, the device produces ultrashort hard x-rays pulses useful for introspective images of small objects, static or in fast motion, suitable for the identification of internal submillimetric defects. Clear images of metallic objects shielded by several millimeters iron walls are shown.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures
The impaction of spherical particles on circular cylinders
Creators: name: Griffin, Frank Owen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Inertial and interceptive .impaction of spherical particles on circular cylinders was investigated theoretically. The particles were considered to be suspended in a fluid moving steadily through a random array of parallel cylinders. Fluid flowfields around the cylinders were obtained by numerically solving the Navier-Stokes Equation subject to Kuwabara's zero vorticity boundary condition. These solutions were subsequently utilized in calculating particle trajectories and impaction efficiencies. The latter are presented as functions of Reynolds number (0.2 ≤ Rec ≤ 40), particle inertial parameter (0 ≤ P ≤ 1000), particle to cylinder size ratio (0.001 ≤ K ≤ 1.) and cylinder concentration (10 ̄⁴ ≤ c ≤ 0.111). The impaction efficiencies and critical inertial parameters differ significantly from earlier theoretical predictions. The discrepancies are primarily attributable to the inaccurate flowfield representations used by previous authors. The agreement between Subramanyam and Kuloor's experimental work and present theory is satisfactory.
Monitoring the internet for nootropic substances available to Australian consumers
Creators: name: Adams, BLM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: There is a historical interest in improving cognitive performance for individuals in fields such as academia. Nootropics, also known as smart drugs, are increasingly being used by individuals to obtain desirable cognitive benefits. Research has focused on investigating the potential benefits of nootropics through animal studies, however there is limited knowledge regarding the potential adverse side effects of these substances in humans. An online, active community of nootropic consumers have provided consumer experiences and advice for new consumers, to aid in the navigation of the vast nootropic online market. The current two-part study aimed to firstly monitor the nootropic market available to the Australian consumer, and secondly, to provide a narrative review of the top ten most commonly available nootropics. The 12-month monitoring revealed a vast, relatively stable nootropic marketplace. Adrafinil, Alpha GPC, Aniracetam, Noopept, Oxiracetam, Phenibut, Centrophenoxine, L-theanine, Phenylpiracetam, and Paramiracetam were identified as the ten most common nootropics on the market and were the focus of the narrative review. The second study revealed several psychological (e.g., anxiety and low mood) and other (e.g., physical pain and sleep difficulties) side effects of the commonly used nootropics. The current study was limited in that the nootropics were not purchased to ensure product availability, and by the validity and reliability of consumer reports. It is advisable that clinicians increase their understanding of the potential harms nootropics may have on consumers. Future research is required to further explore and validate these side effects.
Poverty and justice: an adult education handbook. prepared by Josephine Dunne, Frederick J. Perella, with the assistance of Lawrence J. Losoncy.
Creators: name: Dunne, Sister, Josephine
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description:
 For use in: Lay adult & continuing education, teacher in-service training, continuing education of clergy and religious, parish groups and community education.
Period Variations of Delta Scuti Stars
Creators: name: Breger, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In most Delta Scuti stars, the measured period changes are considerably larger than those expected from stellar evolution. In order to study these period and amplitude changes, a few selected stars are measured photometrically for hundreds of nights with a dedicated telescope. These measurements cover several years or decades. The Delta Scuti stars provide more information (than classical pulsators) since a number of simultaneously excited radial and nonradial modes can be studied. The present results indicate the presence of at least two effects: beating of independent modes with close frequencies and stellar cycles. For period and amplitude changes with time scales less than one year, we confirm the beating hypothesis in three stars. This is shown by the correctly correlated relationship between amplitude and phase changes as well as the repetitions of these cycles. However, the observed period variations with longer time scales are not due to simple beating between two close frequencies. For the star 4 CVn we can derive accurate annual frequency values for at least seven radial and nonradial modes. The annual phases are in excellent agreement with predictions from nearby years, thereby confirming the values and their observed long-term changes. For prograde and retrograde modes, the period variations are of identical size, but with opposite signs. The radial mode shows no (or little) changes. Furthermore, all period variations show a reversal around 1990. These results suggest long-term, regular cycles affecting individual modes differently with some common systematic behavior.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Stellar Pulsation: Challenges for Theory and Observation, Santa Fe, NM, 31 May - 5 June, 2009
Hitting the Bull's-eye: The Radial Profile of Accretion and Star Formation in the Milky Way
Creators: name: Peek, J. E. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ongoing star formation in the Milky Way requires continuous gaseous fuel from accretion. Previous work has suggested that the accretion of dwarf galaxies could provide the needed gas for this process. In this work we investigate whether dwarf galaxy accretion is consistent with the radial profile of star formation observed in the Milky Way, which is strongly concentrated toward the center of the gaseous disk of the Galaxy. Using realistic parameters for the Galactic potential, gaseous halo, Galactic disk, velocities of dwarf galaxies, and effects of drag on stripped gas in the halo, we model the distribution of radii at which dwarf galaxies accrete onto the Galactic disk. We also model the radial distribution of the accretion of gas that cools directly out of the halo by examining the results of recent simulations. We show that dwarf galaxies cannot reproduce the concentration of accretion toward the center of the Galaxy required by star formation. We also show that clouds that cool directly from the halo can reproduce this central concentration, and conclude that this difference is largely due to the discrepancy in absolute specific angular momentum between the two mechanisms.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted to the ApJ
Mapping residual stress and chemical inhomogeneity in silicon doped boron carbide via Raman spectroscopy
Creators: name: Pereira, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Recently, there has been much effort to increase the amorphization resistance of boron carbide and thus improve its ballistic performance. One such method involves co-doping boron carbide with silicon and boron. Silicon acts to stabilize the C-B-C chain by replacing the central boron atom and forming an extra bond with the neighboring icosahedra, while boron increases the solubility limit of silicon.There has been difficulty scaling the size of sintered samples produced during research to what is required in industry. Larger doped boron carbide tiles, require longer soak times and exhibited a tendency to chip at the edges. It was proposed that the chipping is a result of residual stress, arising from nonuniformity in phase chemistry and thermoelastic mismatch between different regions. Raman spectroscopy was used on a standard to determine the relationship between silicon doping and Raman peak shift. It was found that an increase in silicon doping of 1 at.% would cause the 1080cm−1 peak to shift down by 5.4cm−1. This finding served as the basis for quantification of silicon doping levels in samples with varied sintering parameters. Samples with short soak times have high inhomogeneity which led to development of internal cracks. Samples with long soak times were more homogenous, but they had lower bulk doping and larger grains. It was found that silicon diffuses out of the sample as it reacts with the graphite in the die. It is proposed that use of thin boron nitride spacers could minimize silicon loss where punch contact occurs. It was also found that soak time of two hours provides the optimal balance between maximizing bulk silicon doping and minimizing inhomogeneity. A response couple was used to generate a predictable residual stress. The stress distribution surrounding a crack in the response couple was mapped, and the measured stress differed from the calculated stress by only 8%. Raman spectroscopy was then used in conjunction with ZAF corrected energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) to determine whether dopant levels vary within grains and if this gives rise to stress. It was found that doping varied by 0.2 at.% from the center to the edge of a 180µm grain, which gave rise to a 530 MPa stress differential. It is proposed that the stress distribution could be visualized in samples with varied phase chemistry by determining the relationship between boron doping and 1080cm−1 peak shift. This may enable the peak shift from chemistry to be subtracted, leaving only the response from residual stress.
Conscience: Phenomena and Theories
Creators: name: Stoker, Hendrik
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: _Conscience: Phenomena and Theories_ was first published in German in 1925 as a dissertation by Hendrik G. Stoker under the title _Das Gewissen: Erscheinungsformen und Theorien_. It was received with acclaim by philosophers at the time, including Stoker's dissertation mentor Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, and Herbert Spielberg, as quite possibly the single most comprehensive philosophical treatment of conscience and as a major contribution in the phenomenological tradition.\u000a\u000aStoker's study offers a detailed historical survey of the concept of conscience from ancient times through the Middle Ages up to more modern thinkers, including Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, and Cardinal Newman. Stoker analyzes not only the concept of conscience in academic theory but also various types of theories of conscience. His work offers insightful discussions of problems and theories related to the genesis, reliability, and validity of conscience. In particular, Stoker analyzes the moral, spiritual, and psychological phenomena connected with bad conscience, which in turn illuminate the concept of conscience.\u000a\u000aThe book is deeply informed by the traditions of western Christianity. Available for the first time in an accessible English translation, with an introduction by its translator and editor, Philip E. Blosser, it promises to be of interest to philosophers, especially in Christian philosophy and phenomenology, and also to all those interested in moral and religious psychology, ethics, religion, and theology.
Social work in neoliberal times : accommodation, resistance and disruption
Creators: name: Wallace, JD
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Drawing on a neo-Gramscian portrayal of hegemony as a contested process, this research explores the impact of neoliberalism on social work in Australia. The study identifies the varied contexts and interpretations of neoliberal hegemony, and outlines some of social work's economic, social and political responses. According to the study, neoliberal hegemony has hailed social work to a new set of relationships, centred on the 'primacy of the market' and economisation of all things. The research identifies that it has been difficult for social work to respond to neoliberal approaches. In part, neoliberal mechanisms of privatisation and marketisation have had, the research suggests, a significant economic and organisational impact on social work, which highlights a new industrial undercurrent intent on maximising workforce flexibility and financial efficiency. The research offers evidence of the fundamental challenges to social work's identity, its social position, and its value within neoliberal society. Some aspects of neoliberalism, according to the findings, have been accommodated by social work with little challenge, while other aspects have brought on disgruntlement, or even fundamental resistance and disruption by social workers. While the manufactured 'consent' to neoliberal hegemony has significant implications for citizenship and civil society in the Australian context, the study asserts that the 'thin' hegemonic nature of neoliberalism makes its ideological domination unstable and prone to disruption. The thesis goes on to identify that elements of social work's nature, its history and its intellectual debates, not only make it resistant, but also disruptive to neoliberal hegemony, and provide possibilities for social change.
Thermophoresis in sols.
Creators: name: McNab, Gordon Spencer
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Experiments were conducted on the motion of micron-size, spherical latex particles in stagnant liquids due to applied temperature gradients. The phenomenon, called thermophoresis, has previously been reported for gases but not for liquids. Dilute suspensions of particles in water or n-hexane were trapped between two horizontal, parallel disks. The top disk was heated whereas the lower one was cooled, thus creating a temperature gradient in the liquid. The particle motion was measured by observing light reflected from the spheres with a low power microscope. The particle thermophoretic velocity, vth, was found to be a function of temperature gradient, ▽T, absolute temperature, TK, particle thermal conductivity, kp , fluid thermal conductivity, kf, viscosity, μ, and density, ρ: [ Formula omitted ] This equation was tested in the ranges 284 °K <_ TK <_ 343 °K and 7,000 °K m ̄¹ <_ ▽T <_ 30.J.00.0. °K m ̄¹ . No dependence, on particle diameter was noted. Thermophoresis in liquids is a weak effect and impractical for liquid-particle separation. It may, however, be important in engineering situations where large temperature gradients occur.
Quantum imaging: Scattered observations on "Copenhagen"
Creators: name: Kent, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Remarks on Michael Frayn's play "Copenhagen".
Doping a semiconductor to create an unconventional metal
Creators: name: Manyala, N.
name: DiTusa, J. F.
name: Aeppli, G.
name: Ramirez, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Landau Fermi liquid theory, with its pivotal assertion that electrons in metals can be simply understood as independent particles with effective masses replacing the free electron mass, has been astonishingly successful. This is true despite the Coulomb interactions an electron experiences from the host crystal lattice, its defects, and the other ~1022/cm3 electrons. An important extension to the theory accounts for the behaviour of doped semiconductors1,2. Because little in the vast literature on materials contradicts Fermi liquid theory and its extensions, exceptions have attracted great attention, and they include the high temperature superconductors3, silicon-based field effect transistors which host two-dimensional metals4, and certain rare earth compounds at the threshold of magnetism5-8. The origin of the non-Fermi liquid behaviour in all of these systems remains controversial. Here we report that an entirely different and exceedingly simple class of materials - doped small gap semiconductors near a metal-insulator transition - can also display a non-Fermi liquid state. Remarkably, a modest magnetic field functions as a switch which restores the ordinary disordered Fermi liquid. Our data suggest that we have finally found a physical realization of the only mathematically rigourous route to a non-Fermi liquid, namely the 'undercompensated Kondo effect', where there are too few mobile electrons to compensate for the spins of unpaired electrons localized on impurity atoms9-12.
description: 17 pages 4 figures supplemental information included with 2 figures
The neural correlates of selective stopping
Creators: name: Hallinan-Blazely, H
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: There is a historical interest in improving cognitive performance for individuals in fields such as academia. Nootropics, also known as smart drugs, are increasingly being used by individuals to obtain desirable cognitive benefits. Research has focused on investigating the potential benefits of nootropics through animal studies, however there is limited knowledge regarding the potential adverse side effects of these substances in humans. An online, active community of nootropic consumers have provided consumer experiences and advice for new consumers, to aid in the navigation of the vast nootropic online market. The current two-part study aimed to firstly monitor the nootropic market available to the Australian consumer, and secondly, to provide a narrative review of the top ten most commonly available nootropics. The 12-month monitoring revealed a vast, relatively stable nootropic marketplace. Adrafinil, Alpha GPC, Aniracetam, Noopept, Oxiracetam, Phenibut, Centrophenoxine, L-theanine, Phenylpiracetam, and Paramiracetam were identified as the ten most common nootropics on the market and were the focus of the narrative review. The second study revealed several psychological (e.g., anxiety and low mood) and other (e.g., physical pain and sleep difficulties) side effects of the commonly used nootropics. The current study was limited in that the nootropics were not purchased to ensure product availability, and by the validity and reliability of consumer reports. It is advisable that clinicians increase their understanding of the potential harms nootropics may have on consumers. Future research is required to further explore and validate these side effects.
Bonnie How Interview
Creators: name: Institute For Diversity & Civic Life
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Religions Texas
Covid-19
Pastor
Religious leader
Canada
U.S. citizenship
Seminary
Native American studies
Rocky Mountains
Wesleyan tradition
Immigration
First Nations Indian Reservation
Pumpkin patch
Gen X
Christian, Methodist
Austin, TX

description: This interview is with Bonnie How, the senior solo pastor of St. Luke United Methodist Church, a radically inclusive and justice-minded space. Bonnie recently became a citizen of the U.S. and speaks to the challenges of navigating that process during a global pandemic. Bonnie grew up near Glacier National Park in Alberta, Canada, but has no plans of moving back.
Asteroids Were Born Big
Creators: name: Morbidelli, Alessandro
name: Bottke, William
name: Nesvorny, David
name: Levison, Harold F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How big were the first planetesimals? We attempt to answer this question by conducting coagulation simulations in which the planetesimals grow by mutual collisions and form larger bodies and planetary embryos. The size frequency distribution (SFD) of the initial planetesimals is considered a free parameter in these simulations, and we search for the one that produces at the end objects with a SFD that is consistent with asteroid belt constraints. We find that, if the initial planetesimals were small (e.g. km-sized), the final SFD fails to fulfill these constraints. In particular, reproducing the bump observed at diameter D~100km in the current SFD of the asteroids requires that the minimal size of the initial planetesimals was also ~100km. This supports the idea that planetesimals formed big, namely that the size of solids in the proto-planetary disk ``jumped'' from sub-meter scale to multi-kilometer scale, without passing through intermediate values. Moreover, we find evidence that the initial planetesimals had to have sizes ranging from 100 to several 100km, probably even 1,000km, and that their SFD had to have a slope over this interval that was similar to the one characterizing the current asteroids in the same size-range. This result sets a new constraint on planetesimal formation models and opens new perspectives for the investigation of the collisional evolution in the asteroid and Kuiper belts as well as of the accretion of the cores of the giant planets.
description: Icarus (2009) in press
Dark matter and pulsar signals for Fermi LAT, PAMELA, ATIC, HESS and WMAP data
Creators: name: Barger, V.
name: Gao, Y.
name: Keung, W. -Y.
name: Marfatia, D.
name: Shaughnessy, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze new diffuse gamma-ray data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which do not confirm an excess in the EGRET data at galactic mid-latitudes, in combination with measurements of electron and positron fuxes from PAMELA, Fermi and HESS within the context of three possible sources: dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay into charged leptons, and a continuum distribution of pulsars. We allow for variations in the backgrounds, consider several DM halo profiles, and account for systematic uncertainties in data where possible. We find that all three scenarios represent the data well. The pulsar description holds for a wide range of injection energy spectra. We compare with ATIC data and the WMAP haze where appropriate, but do not fit these data since the former are discrepant with Fermi data and the latter are subject to large systematic uncertainties. We show that for cusped halo profiles, Fermi could observe a spectacular gamma-ray signal of DM annihilation from the galactic center while seeing no excess at mid-latitudes.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures. Updated with Fermi LAT electron data
Battlegrounds to Bipartisanship: The Effect of Military Experience on Bipartisanship in the U.S. Congress
Creators: name: Jantz, Deborah
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: United States. Congress
subject: Veterans
subject: Partisanship

description: The U.S. Congress has become increasingly polarized over the last few decades, at times struggling to move past partisan divides to pass legislation, ultimately leading to little public trust in the institution. Meanwhile, for years, polling of the American public has shown the U.S. military to be among the most trusted institutions. Military service is often considered a crucial part of an individual’s identity. It is commonly cited to lend credibility to public figures’ published opinions and can serve as a major part of the platform on which veterans run for elected offices. Existing literature finds that military experience does impact mindsets on ideological issues such as defense budget and use of force, but the literature often fails to distinguish between relevant types of military service, such as branch, length, generation, and component. This thesis considers the effect of military experience, including various differentiators of that service, on bipartisanship in Congress. I collect data on the military background of Congress Members from 1991-2021, and I find that military service does correlate with higher bipartisanship or less partisanship, as measured in roll-call voting, bill sponsorship, and rhetoric. Length of military service and other differentiators, however, do not have a significant effect. I posit, therefore, that this increase in bipartisanship is due to self-selection and not socialization. Rather than any values learned from the military leading to bipartisanship, patriotism may prompt some to enter both the military and then Congress, as they serve their country through problem-solving that often necessitates bipartisanship. This finding highlights the importance of encouraging a strong national identity if we are to uphold a functional and flourishing democracy.
Allocation d'actifs selon le critère de maximisation des fonds propres économiques en assurance non-vie
Creators: name: Planchet, Frédéric
name: Thérond, Pierre-Emanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The economic equities maximization criterion (MFPE) leads to the choice of financial portfolio, which maximizes the ratio of the expected value of the insurance company on the capital. This criterion is presented in the framework of a non-life insurance company and is applied within the framework of the French legislation and in a lawful context inspired of the works in progress about the European project Solvency 2. In the French regulation case, the required solvency margin does not depend of the asset allocation. It is quite different in the Solvency 2 framework because the target capital has to control the global risk of the company. And the financial risk takes part of this global risk. Thus the economic equities maximization criterion leads to search a couple asset allocation / equities which solves a stochastic program. A numerical illustration makes it possible to analyze the consequences of the introduction of a Solvency 2 framework on the technical reserves and the equities of a non-life insurance company and on the optimal allocation due to the economic equities maximization criterion. Finally, the impact of a misspecification of the risky asset model on the optimal allocation is illustrated.
Paris savages, a novel, and an accompanying exegesis : Human zoos‚ÄövÑvp and their aftermath : an examination of the archive and the place for fiction
Creators: name: Johnson, Katherine
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines an aspect of colonial history little known outside academic circles: the ethnographic exhibition, predominantly in Europe and America, of living people promoted as being from far-away lands, exotic‚ÄövÑvp or savage‚ÄövÑvp. Although research in the last two decades by Poignant, Blanchard, Bo‚àö¬¥tsch, Bancel, Thode-Arora, Qureshi and others has gathered important historical material about such exhibitions and their role in the construction of racial stereotypes, there remain significant gaps in the record ‚Äö- namely, as Qureshi describes, the paucity of sources that might be used to reconstruct performers' motivations and perceptions‚ÄövÑvp (9). There also exist gaps in the creative literature, with only a handful of novels having been published that refer to this subject, although not in an Australian context. Such novels include Dominic Smith's Bright and Distant Shores and Didier Daeninckx's Cannibale. The focus of this dissertation is the exhibition and representation of Australian Aboriginal performers in Europe and America in the late nineteenth century when human zoos‚ÄövÑvp became mass entertainment. The thesis explores how fiction informed by postcolonial theory might be used to highlight knowledge gaps, challenge racial constructions, and reposition the performers' possible experiences more centrally. Through a novel, Paris Savages, it investigates imaginative ways of deconstructing the version of history that exists in the archives, particularly constructed ideas of the objectified other‚ÄövÑvp as inferior‚ÄövÑvp and savage‚ÄövÑvp. With a focus on three Badtjala performers in Europe, Paris Savages attempts to re-historicise this historical episode by inviting the reader to imagine a more balanced telling. Without first-person performer accounts, it is, of course, impossible to know what the Aboriginal performers each made of this experience. However, I argue that an informed and overtly imaginative approach, inclusive of Aboriginal characters, is a necessary step towards contesting the racial stereotypes the shows produced for, without such attempts at rewriting race and racism, not merely representing, but disturbing [it]‚ÄövÑvp (Hopper), societies born of colonialism will remain locked in their limited histories. Indeed, without re-examining stories that have been half told, the 'field' of the genuinely post-colonial can never actually exist‚ÄövÑvp (Slemon 79).
An exploration of the boat form and the element of water through craft based sculptural works
Creators: name: Randall, NJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This project seeks to communicate through sculpture different facets of humanity's interaction with the ocean, ranging from water as calm and reflective to water as a turbulent force. In doing so it reflects on both our intimate connection with water as well as our vulnerability in the face of its elemental power, using the boat form to explore these themes. The works are a direct result of my own lived experience, that experience being a lifetime connection to boats and the marine environment. Inspired by my experience as a diver immersed in the ocean being twisted and bent by the currents, I have imagined the boat form losing its buoyancy and sinking below the surface, losing its rigidity and yielding to the forces of the sea. To communicate this more clearly, the boat has been distilled down to its archetypal form by removing all elements aside from the hull as the hull is the element which intimately and directly connects with water. The reductivist nature of Constantin Brancusi's sculptural works has informed my project in this regard. Technique is key to my practice with my background as a furniture designer and maker and through this project the potential benefits and disadvantages of integrating digital technology into a traditional craft practice by digitizing the previously analogue cold moulding method is explored. Practitioners who take a craft‚ÄövÑv™based approach such as Matthias Pleissnig, Wendell Castle and Joseph Walsh have all informed my practice in the way that they create a synthesis of art, craft and design in their work My intent for this project is to demonstrate through taking a measured and considered approach to the implementation of digital technology, craftspeople can utilize the power of these tools to create more ambitious projects without compromising the integrity of their work. The final exhibition is comprised of three archetypal forms in space which respond to the contrasting characteristics of water through the boat form. They are intended to evoke a sense of our vulnerability in the face of the elemental forces of nature as embodied in the element of water which can both sustain life but also take it. The practical results were that it was demonstrated that the cold moulding has the potential to be successfully adapted for smaller scale projects with the assistance of digital fabrication techniques.
Benzodiazepine use and criminal activity : a case-crossover study
Creators: name: Lethbridge, HP
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The relationship between drug use and crime has been well-established in the literature among groups of illicit recreational substances. There is a paucity of literature investigating the misuse of prescribed pharmaceutical drugs and their contribution to the drug crime link. Benzodiazepines are a class of prescription anxiolytic drugs commonly used to treat anxiety. A small body of research suggests that the misuse of high potency benzodiazepines (e.g., alprazolam) can be positively associated with criminality. The current study aimed to examine the relationship between benzodiazepine use and criminal activity among a sample of 82 offenders. A case-crossover design was utilised whereby substance use in the 12-24 hours prior to a crime event (hazard period) was compared with substance use in the 28 days prior to the same crime event (control period). Incidence Rate Ratios were calculated using multilevel mixed-effects negative binomial regression models to determine if there was an increased likelihood that benzodiazepine use in the hazard period was associated with criminal activity. After controlling for baseline alprazolam use, demographics, psychosocial factors, and general crime engagement, participants were 62% more likely to commit a crime if they had used alprazolam in the hazard period, IRR = 1.62, 95% CI [1.17-2.24], p = 0.003. There were non-significant positive associations between diazepam, other illicit substances and criminal activity and non-significant negative associations between methadone, temazepam, and criminal activity. These findings suggest there may be a strong and unique positive association between alprazolam use and criminal activity. This has important implications for individuals who are prescribed alprazolam or taking the drug recreationally within an offending population, as consumption may place them at greater risk for criminal engagement. This research also has implications for the ease of access to alprazolam prescriptions.
Phonon Spectroscopy Near Phase Transition Temperatures in Multferroic BiFeO3 Epitaxial Thin Films
Creators: name: Palai, R.
name: Scott, J. F.
name: Katiyar, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a Raman scattering investigation of multiferroic bismuth ferrite BiFeO3 epitaxial (c-axis oriented) thin films from -192 to 1000C. Phonon anomalies have been observed in three temperature regions: in the gamma-phase from 930C to 950C; at ~370C, Neel temperature (TN), and at ~123C, due to a phase transition of unknown type (magnetic or structural). An attempt has been made to understand the origin of the weak phonon-magnon coupling and the dynamics of the phase sequence. The disappearance of several Raman modes at ~820C (Tc) is compatible with the known structural phase transition and the Pbnm orthoferrite space group assigned by Arnold {\it et al.} \cite{arnold:09}. The spectra also revealed a {\it non-cubic} $β$-phase from 820-930\dc and the same {\it non-cubic} phase extends through the $γ$-phase between 930-950\dc, in agreement with Arnold {\it et al.} \cite{arnold2:09}, and an evidence of a cubic $δ$-phase around 1000\dc in thin films that is not stable in powder and bulk. Such a cubic phase has been theoretically predicted in \cite{vasquez:prb09}. Micro-Raman scattering and X-ray diffraction showed no structural decomposition in thin films during the thermal cycling from 22-1000\dc.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
High Spatial Resolution Galactic 3D Extinction Mapping with IPHAS
Creators: name: Sale, S. E.
name: Drew, J. E.
name: Unruh, Y. C.
name: Irwin, M. J.
name: Knigge, C.
name: Phillipps, S.
name: Zijlstra, A. A.
name: Gänsicke, B. T.
name: Greimel, R.
name: Groot, P. J.
name: Mampaso, A.
name: Morris, R. A. H.
name: Napiwotzki, R.
name: Steeghs, D.
name: Walton, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an algorithm ({\scshape mead}, for `Mapping Extinction Against Distance') which will determine intrinsic ($r' - i'$) colour, extinction, and distance for early-A to K4 stars extracted from the IPHAS $r'/i'/\Halpha$ photometric database. These data can be binned up to map extinction in three dimensions across the northern Galactic Plane. The large size of the IPHAS database ($\sim 200$ million unique objects), the accuracy of the digital photometry it contains and its faint limiting magnitude ($r' \sim 20$) allow extinction to be mapped with fine angular ($ \sim 10 $ arcmin) and distance ($\sim 0.1$ ~kpc) resolution to distances of up to 10 kpc, outside the Solar Circle. High reddening within the Solar Circle on occasion brings this range down to $\sim 2$ kpc. The resolution achieved, both in angle and depth, greatly exceeds that of previous empirical 3D extinction maps, enabling the structure of the Galactic Plane to be studied in increased detail. {\scshape mead} accounts for the effect of the survey magnitude limits, photometric errors, unresolved ISM substructure, and binarity. The impact of metallicity variations, within the range typical of the Galactic disc is small. The accuracy and reliability of {\scshape mead} are tested through the use of simulated photometry created with Monte-Carlo sampling techniques. The success of this algorithm is demonstrated on a selection of fields and the results are compared to the literature.
description: 18 pages, 25 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS, A version with high-resolution images is available at http://astro.ic.ac.uk/~ssale/extnmap.pdf
title: Nawal Al Saadawi and Hanan Al Shaykh's Authorship: Between Arab and Western Reception
Creators: name: Obeid, Diana M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: When Lebanese author Layla Baalbaki wrote her novel A Space Ship of Tenderness to the Moon in 1964 about a woman's defiance to her husband's wishes and his way of maintaining societal customs and traditions, an avalanche of criticism was directed against her. She was accused of obscenity and was put on trial before a Lebanese Prosecutor. Baalbaki's experiences are symbolic of the paradoxical and contradictory reception many Arab female authors have received in the East and the West. In this thesis, I discuss this discrepancy of reception in the works of Nawal Al Saadawi and Hanan Al Shaykh, two of the most renowned female authors in the Arab world. While Al Saadawi and Al Shaykh's works were disparaged and criticized in the Arab world, it was canonized in the West. This discrepancy necessitates the study of the discursive function of their authorship, for these authors' reputations have traveled trans-nationally. It is important to note that these writers were active agents -not passive victims-in the social construction of their authorship. Although at times they seem wary of the reception they have received in the West, I will argue that they have been compliant and at times invited that reception.
Effective dimensionality of the Portevin - Le Chatelier effect
Creators: name: Chatterjee, A.
name: Gayathri, N.
name: Sarkar, A.
name: Mukherjee, P.
name: Barat, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tensile tests have been carried out by deforming polycrystalline samples of substitutional Al-2.5%Mg alloy at room temperature at a range of strain rates. The Portevin - Le Chatelier (PLC) effect was observed. From an analysis of the experimental stress versus time series data we have inferred that the dynamics of the PLC effect in a local finite time is controlled by a finite number of degrees of freedom and this effective dimension becomes reduced with increasing strain.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Polarizibilities as a test of localized approximations to the self-interaction correction
Creators: name: Messud, J.
name: Wang, Z.
name: Dinh, P. M.
name: Reinhard, P. -G.
name: Suraud, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present applications of the recently introduced ``Generalized SIC-Slater'' scheme which provides a simple Self-Interaction Correction approximation in the framework of the Optimized Effective Potential. We focus on the computation of static polarizabilities which are known to constitute stringent tests for Density Functional Theory. We apply the new method to model H chains, but also to more realistic systems such as C4 (organic) chains, and less symmetrical systems such as a Na5 (metallic) cluster. Comparison is made with other SIC schemes, especially with the standard SIC-Slater one.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures, 49 references
La "compilation soundtrack" nel cinema sonoro italiano
Creators: name: Corbella, Maurizio
name: Boschi, Elena
name: Locatelli, Massimo
name: Tomatis, Jacopo
name: Soldani, Maria Teresa
name: Bratus, Alessandro
name: Valentini, Paola
name: Cecchi, Alessandro
name: Pini, Benedetta
Publisher: name: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia
Year: 2020

description: The issue addresses the compilation soundtrack in the Italian sound cinema
description: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia, V. 4 N. 7 (2020)
Introduzione. La "compilation soundtrack" come ipotesi di lavoro sulla storia della musica nel cinema italiano
Creators: name: Corbella, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia
Year: 2020

description: Introduction to the special issue
description: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia, V. 4 N. 7 (2020)