cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
TubaChristmas in Grand Rapids: An Intergenerational Community Music Event
Creators: name: Powell, Sarah
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: community music
subject: intergenerational music
subject: music education
subject: tuba
subject: euphonium
subject: Music Education

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the 2022 Grand Rapids TubaChristmas event as an intergenerational community music-making opportunity. Research questions for this study included (1) How do musician participants in TubaChristmas describe their experiences in an annual intergenerational community ensemble? (2) How do audience participants perceive and experience the event? (3) What meanings do musician participants draw from their experiences in TubaChristmas? and (4) What elements of the TubaChristmas event provide perceived benefits to musician participants, and what elements provide challenges? Data included observation of the event, individual interviews with musician participants, survey of audience and musician participants, and documents collected from the event and from prior events. Analysis involved coding and categorizing observational data, survey results, and transcripts of individual interviews into themes as related to the research questions. The findings from this study showed that musician participants described the event as an enjoyable, inclusive musical experience that builds community. Audience participants described it as a fun musical tradition centered on connecting with family. Musicians drew meaning from TubaChristmas through sustaining a tradition, community building, intergenerational connections, uplifting tuba culture, and uplifting others. Finally, musician participants perceived musical, communal, and social benefits from the event, while experiencing challenges such as venue, tuba/euphonium needs, and elements of unpredictability.
Generalizations of a method for constructing first integrals of a class of natural Hamiltonians and some remarks about quantization
Creators: name: Chanu, Claudia
name: Degiovanni, Luca
name: Rastelli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In previous papers we determined necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a class of natural Hamiltonians with non-trivial first integrals of arbitrarily high degree in the momenta. Such Hamiltonians were characterized as (n+1)-dimensional extensions of n-dimensional Hamiltonians on constant-curvature (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds Q. In this paper, we generalize that approach in various directions, we obtain an explicit expression for the first integrals, holding on the more general case of Hamiltonians on Poisson manifolds, and show how the construction of above is made possible by the existence on Q of particular conformal Killing tensors or, equivalently, particular conformal master symmetries of the geodesic equations. Finally, we consider the problem of Laplace-Beltrami quantization of these first integrals when they are of second-degree.
description: Presented at the conference Quantum Theory and Symmetries 7, Praha, August 7-13 2011. In v2 some typos corrected, a comment added after eq. (4), a comment about ref. [1] corrected
4-Chloroethcathinone (4-CEC) in a single binge exposure triggers immediate and long sustained cognitive dysfunction in mice
Creators: name: De Mello-Sampayo, C.
name: Leitão, M.
name: Gamito, C.
name: Brites, D.
name: Lopes, A. T.
Publisher: name: Scientific Letters
Year: 2023

description: Background: Synthetic cathinones (SC) are β-keto analogues of amphetamine. They usually produce short-lived stimulant effects, which trigger higher desire of re-dosing with potential risk of overdosing. Its consumption occurs frequently in the form of multiple administration during a single exposure-event (binge), mostly by young party attendees. Adolescence is a critical time of brain development, and any disruption has a high risk of inducing brain dysfunction. 4-chloroethcathinone (4-CEC), a briefly studied SC, has been identified in seized samples and linked to overdose cases [1,2], but its repercussions on cognitive functions have not been assessed, yet. Currently, there is limited information, even contradictory, on the short- and the long-term cognitive implications associated to SC use during adolescence, and even fewer when binge exposure is thought. Hence, this study aimed to demonstrate the short- and long-term effects of a single binge exposure to 4-CEC on cognitive and emotional functioning of young compared to adults. Methods: Young (1-month) and adult (6-months) mice were exposed to a single-binge (two-times 16mg/kg or two-times 32mg/kg, ip, 2h interval) of 4-CEC or saline and the effects on learning/memory were assessed, by the Morris watermaze, at 24h, one and 6-months (long-term) post exposure. Effects on emotional behaviors were assessed at the same three time points, too. Results: The obtained results demonstrate that a single binge exposure to 4-CEC elicited, long lasting, learning and memory impairment, associated to anxiolytic behaviour and increased apathy. Most importantly, young mice seem to be more susceptible to 4-CEC than adult mice. Conclusions: These results alert the cognitive impact and on mental health that a 4-CEC single binge exposure may have, especially during adolescence, when brain plasticity is still occurring.
description: Scientific Letters, Vol. 1 No. Sup 1 (2023)
Message repetition within the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion: applications to advertising
Creators: name: Hartel, Diana
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: HF 5822 H37 1990
subject: Alberta - Calgary. University - Faculty of Social Sciences - Department of Psychology - Students, Female
subject: Advertising - Psychological aspects
subject: Persuasion (Psychology)

description: offsite
description: Bibliography: p. 213-233.
Where did you come from? Characterization of pathogenic antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli in recreational waters
Creators: name: Gomes, L.
name: Machado, A.
name: Bordalo, Adriano A.
Publisher: name: Scientific Letters
Year: 2023

description: Background: Escherichia coli is a commensal bacterium present in the gastrointestinal tract of warm-blood animals, and therefore routinely used as a microbiological indicator of fecal contamination [1,2]. However, several strains may acquire virulence factors, becoming potentially pathogenic for humans and animals [1,3]. Objective: The current study underscores human exposure to pathogenic and antimicrobial resistant E. coli through recreational waters. Methods: Surface water samples were collected from estuarine and coastal beaches, as well as from treated wastewater. Detection and isolation were performed using selective and differential culture media. Presumptive isolates were confirmed by PCR approach. E. coli isolates were submitted to an extensive virulence gene screening. Results: The majority of the E. coli isolates belonged to the phylogenetic subgroup D1 (24%) or B1 (20%), indicating that animals were a relevant source of contamination. The isolates virulence profiles (n=272) showed that 35% were diarrheagenic E. coli (DEC). Among the pathotypes, enterotoxigenic E. coli had a prevalence of 12%, followed by enterohaemorrhagic E. coli with 10%. Avian pathogenic E. coli associated genes were detected, with a higher presence of the fiuA (44%), ompT (39%), and iss (36%) genes. The assessment of antibiotic susceptibility to 22 antibiotics of 9 different classes was carried using the Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method. A total of 72% of isolates showed resistance to at least 3 different antibiotic classes. The highest percentage of resistance was showed to Erythromycin (98.5%), and Rifampicin (99.2%), whereas 100% susceptibility was found to Imipenem and Nitrofurantoin. Conclusions: The results confirmed the circulation of pathogenic E. coli and antimicrobial resistant strains in recreational waters. This study highlights the importance of monitoring additional parameters than those officially listed as fecal indicators, in order to improve risk management and guarantee the safe use of the resources.
description: Scientific Letters, Vol. 1 No. Sup 1 (2023)
Locally monotone Boolean and pseudo-Boolean functions
Creators: name: Couceiro, Miguel
name: Marichal, Jean-Luc
name: Waldhauser, Tamás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 06E30, 94C10

description: We propose local versions of monotonicity for Boolean and pseudo-Boolean functions: say that a pseudo-Boolean (Boolean) function is p-locally monotone if none of its partial derivatives changes in sign on tuples which differ in less than p positions. As it turns out, this parameterized notion provides a hierarchy of monotonicities for pseudo-Boolean (Boolean) functions. Local monotonicities are shown to be tightly related to lattice counterparts of classical partial derivatives via the notion of permutable derivatives. More precisely, p-locally monotone functions are shown to have p-permutable lattice derivatives and, in the case of symmetric functions, these two notions coincide. We provide further results relating these two notions, and present a classification of p-locally monotone functions, as well as of functions having p-permutable derivatives, in terms of certain forbidden "sections", i.e., functions which can be obtained by substituting constants for variables. This description is made explicit in the special case when p=2.
Meiotic segregation of chromosomes in sperm of two men heterozygous for Robertsonian translocation
Creators: name: Syme, Rachel Mona
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: QH 605.3 S95 1990
subject: Meiosis
subject: Translocation (Genetics)

description: Bibliography: p. 100-110.
description: offsite
Steam-assisted gravity drainage with vertical steam injection wells
Creators: name: Sawhney, Gurpreet Singh
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: TN 871 S29 1993
subject: Additional Copy: TN 871 L53 1991
subject: TN 871 L53 1991a
subject: Oil reservoir engineering
subject: Thermal oil recovery
subject: Petroleum engineering
subject: Oil well drilling

description: Bibliography: p. 192-196.
Using deuterated H3+ and other molecular species to understand the formation of stars and planets
Creators: name: van der Tak, Floris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The H3+ ion plays a key role in the chemistry of dense interstellar gas clouds where stars and planets are forming. The low temperatures and high extinctions of such clouds make direct observations of H3+ impossible, but lead to large abundances of H2D+ and D2H+ which are very useful probes of the early stages of star and planet formation. Maps of H2D+ and D2H+ pure rotational line emission toward star-forming regions show that the strong deuteration of H3+ is the result of near-complete molecular depletion of CNO-bearing molecules onto grain surfaces, which quickly disappears as cores warm up after stars have formed. In the warmer parts of interstellar gas clouds, H3+ transfers its proton to other neutrals such as CO and N2, leading to a rich ionic chemistry. The abundances of such species are useful tracers of physical conditions such as the radiation field and the electron fraction. Recent observations of HF line emission toward the Orion Bar imply a high electron fraction, and we suggest that observations of OH+ and H2O+ emission may be used to probe the electron density in the nuclei of external galaxies.
description: Proceedings of the H3+ centennial symposium, to be published in RSPTA (editor: T. Oka)
Effects of methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) in avoidance behaviour and reproduction on the earthworm Eisenia fetida
Creators: name: Ribeiro, O.
name: Ferreira, J.
name: Sousa, J. R.
name: Natal-Da-Luz, T.
name: Ribeiro, C.
name: Carrola, J. S.
Publisher: name: Scientific Letters
Year: 2023

description: Background: The excessive use of psychoactive substances (PAS) is a global problem that directly and indirectly affects human, animal health and environment [1], related with “one health” concept. These substances and their metabolites enter in the wastewater through human excretion and consequently into water systems. The sewage sludge produced in wastewater treatment plants can be used as amendment in agricultural soils leading to their contamination [2]. Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) is a recent PAS known as “bath salts” [3] found in recreational settings. Due to the increase of PAS in soil, it is important to evaluate its toxic effects on soil organisms, like the earthworm Eisenia fetida, considered soil health bioindicators and an ecologically significant model species [4]. Objective: The study aim was to assess the impact of MDPV on the behaviour and reproduction of E. fetida. Methods: Following the procedures described in the ISO 17512-1, dual chambre Avoidance Tests were conducted for 48 hours, using adults E. fetida that were exposed to combinations of uncontaminated soil and contaminated soils with different MDPV concentrations (25, 250, and 2500 µg/kg). Additionally, a Reproduction Test was carried out using the same earthworm species and MDPV concentrations, over 56 days, following the procedures described in ISO 11268-2. In both tests, treatments were conducted in triplicate. Results: No statistically significant effects were observed on either avoidance behaviour or reproduction assays of adult earthworms exposed to the different concentrations of MDPV. Conclusions: Our data suggest that the MDPV concentrations tested do not induce adverse effects on avoidance behaviour and reproduction at concentrations lower or equal to 2500 µg/kg. Thus, the results suggest that no negative effects will be observed on earthworm populations exposed to MDPV. Nevertheless, it can be useful to assess MDPV effects on other key fauna organisms representing other taxonomic groups, like mites and collembolans.
description: Scientific Letters, Vol. 1 No. Sup 1 (2023)
ALMA 3 mm spectroscopic mapping across the disk of the closest starburst galaxy NGC 253
Creators: name: Bešlić, Ivana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Star formation correlates mostly directly with dense gas (traced by, e.g. HCN), but spectroscopic tracers of dense gas are incredibly faint with low surface brightness. As a result, we still know relatively little about the resolved structure of dense gas in galaxy disks and its relation to other parts of the galaxy, particularly in extreme systems such as starburst galaxies. I present new ALMA ACA observations of 90 and 100 GHz molecular lines across the disk of the closest starburst galaxy NGC 253 at spatial scales of 300 pc. This yields continuous, uniform measurements of the dense gas abundance and efficiency spanning from the starburst nucleus across the disk environments. We find that all detected lines show enhanced emission towards the centre of this galaxy, then steeply decreases along the bar and remains continuous in the rest of the disk. Dense molecular gas gets piled up in a ring, after which it inflows to the nuclear region, and the presence of an outflow in NGC 253 impacts the dense molecular gas at these scales. In assessing the dynamics of the dense gas by using the spectral decomposition algorithm (SCOUSE), we find a strong environmental dependence on the observed spectral features. In particular, the bar and central sightlines contain complex spectra indicating the presence of multiple gas flows. Similarly, we observed environmental dependence on the observed HCN/CO (the proxy for the dense gas fraction) and the IR/HCN, which traces star formation efficiency. Dense gas fraction strongly decreases towards the outer parts of the disk of NGC 253, whereas SFE shows different behaviour for gas surface densities below and above 200 Msol/pc2.
Our work illustrates the importance of using ALMA to push such "mm-spectroscopy" towards small spatial scales and high sensitivity in understanding dense molecular gas content across disks of extreme environments that are examples of high-redshift galaxies.
Orbital ordering in the geometrically frustrated MgV$_2$O$_4$: \emph{Ab initio} electronic structure calculations
Creators: name: Pandey, Sudhir K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the light of recent interesting experimental work on MgV$_2$O$_4$ we employ the density functional theory to investigate the crucial role played by different interaction parameters in deciding its electronic and magnetic properties. The strong Coulomb correlation in presence of antiferromagnetic (AFM) coupling is responsible for the insulating ground state. In the ground state the $d_{xz}$ and $d_{yz}$ orbitals are ordered and intra-chain vanadium ions are antiferromagnetically coupled. The calculation gives small spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which provides a tilt of $\sim11.3^0$ to the magnetic moment from the z-axis. In the presence of weak SOC and strong exchange coupling, the experimentally observed small magnetic moment and low AFM transition temperature appear to arise from spin fluctuation due to activeness of geometrical frustration.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, (To appear in Phys. Rev. B)
Butylone enantioseparation and ecotoxicity evaluation on Daphnia magna
Creators: name: Carvalho, A. R.
name: Morão, A. M.
name: Gonçalves, V. M. F.
name: Tiritan, M. E.
name: Lado, A. R.
name: Carrola, J. S.
name: Amorim, M. M.
name: Ribeiro, C.
Publisher: name: Scientific Letters
Year: 2023

description: Background: The synthetic drug butylone (2-methylamino-1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)butan-1-one, BTL) is a chiral cathinone consumed in the form of racemate [1]. After consumption, BTL is metabolized and excreted along with its metabolites, and its residues are carried by sewerage systems to wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) [2]. Both human metabolism and biodegradation in WWTPs may be enantioselective causing a change in its enantiomeric fraction (EF). However, enantiomers may exhibit different biological activities including toxicity on non-target aquatic organisms [3]. Objective: This study aimed to separate both enantiomers and assess the sub-chronic effects on Daphnia magna focusing on morphophysiological and reproductive parameters. Methods: The enantiomers were separated by liquid chromatography using a homemade semipreparative chiral column (APS-Nucleosil coated with a 3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate of amylose). Daphnia (with less than 24 h) were exposed for 9 days to concentrations of 0.1, 1, 10 μg/L, with a total of 5 replicates per concentration and a control. Results: Morphophysiological alterations were observed, except in the heart area. A tendency to the increase of body size, heart size and mortality were observed for the higher concentrations (1 and 10 μ/L). The daphniids with eggs tended to decrease. Analysis of other endpoints (ongoing) are required to draw accurate conclusions. Conclusions: The present study demonstrates that exposure to BTL may cause effects on mortality and morphology of D. magna. The ongoing studies will bring new knowledge on BTL adverse effects and the possible enantioselective toxicity effects on this non-target aquatic organism.
description: Scientific Letters, Vol. 1 No. Sup 1 (2023)
Additional file 1 of Genetic analysis of sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma discovers recurrent SWI/SNF alterations and a novel PGAP3-SRPK1 fusion gene
Creators: name: Heft Neal, Molly E.
name: Birkeland, Andrew C.
name: Bhangale, Apurva D.
name: Zhai, Jingyi
name: Kulkarni, Aditi
name: Foltin, Susan K.
name: Jewell, Brittany M.
name: Ludwig, Megan L.
name: Pinatti, Lisa
name: Jiang, Hui
name: McHugh, Jonathan B.
name: Marentette, Lawence
name: McKean, Erin L.
name: Brenner, J. Chad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Figure 1. High confidence somatic mutations and INDELS is depicted for each sample.
title: Multi-National Electronic Brokerage - Pan-European IT Platform for domestic and cross-border securities business & processing
Creators: name: Wicht, Wolfgang
name: Sweeney, Brian
Publisher: name: FH Münster
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: The former bull market has led to developments in the online brokerage industry such as over-capacity, profit-margin pressure, high fixed costs and unprofitable country expansion in the current bear market environment. In order to manage this situation, tactical measures like cost containment programs and closing of international brokerages have been applied. More strategic approaches like order flow consolidation by brokerage franchises, integrated online & branch brokerages and multinational electronic brokerages are valid alternative responses to these developments. This article outlines the Multi-National Electronic Brokerage approach from a strategic, functional, operational and technical perspective.
description: Business Information Management, 1
In-vivo and in-silico studies of Eucalyptus kino polyphenolics: outstanding activity in quenching solid liver tumors through inhibition of MMP-9 and TGF-β gene expression
Creators: name: Sabry, Omar M.
name: Sabry, Miral O.
name: El-Sonbaty, Sawsan M.
name: Meselhy, Khaled M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: As a result of our continuous research efforts to investigate the molecular mechanisms of Eucalyptus kino polyphenolics for healing liver solid tumors, in-vivo histopathological studies of the solid tumor tissues and in-silico molecular docking were carried out. Histopathology of female mice treated with a dose of 200 mg/kg Eucalyptus kino methanolic extract in combination with low level ionising γ-radiation (0.25 Gy) recovered a near-to-normal histological structure revealing a substantial number of cells with hyper-chromachia in nuclei, fibroblast lobules and necrotic cells. Analysis for matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) by Western blot and also molecular docking study were conducted to evaluate and rank the potential of the individual components dominated in the extract to inhibit MMP-9 and TGF-β. The current study presents new lead compounds for the design of novel MMP-9 and TGF-β strong inhibitors of natural origin.
Measuring gamma with B -> K pi pi and B -> K K Kbar Decays
Creators: name: Lorier, Nicolas Rey-Le
name: London, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for cleanly extracting the CP phase gamma from the Dalitz plots of B+ -> K+ pi+ pi-, Bd -> K+ pi0 pi-, Bd -> K0 pi+ pi-, Bd -> K+ K0 K-, and Bd -> K0 K0 Kbar0. The B -> K pi pi and B -> K K Kbar decays are related by flavor SU(3) symmetry, but SU(3) breaking is taken into account. Most of the experimental measurements have already been made -- what remains is a Dalitz-plot analysis of Bd -> K0 K0 Kbar0 (or Bd -> KS KS KS). We (very) roughly estimate the error on gamma to be ~25%. This is somewhat larger than the error in two-body decays, but it would be the first clean measurement of gamma in three-body decays. Furthermore, at the super-B factory, it is possible that gamma could be measured more precisely in three-body decays than in two-body decays.
description: 10 pages, no figures. Presentation considerably modified -- added detailed discussion of how the fit is done, and provided guesstimate of the error on the extracted value of gamma. Conclusions unchanged. Added comparison of error on gamma with two- and three-body decay methods. References added
Performance based evaluation of prequalified steel seismic force resisting structures in Canada
Creators: name: Murphy, Michael
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Structural Steel is one of the most important building materials used worldwide; special Seismic Force Resisting Systems (SFRS) have been developed to use steel to resist seismic forces in earthquake prone regions. In Canada, several steel SFRS have been adopted in the code, these include Moment Resisting Frames, Concentrically and Eccentrically Braced Frames, Buckling Restrained Braced Frames and Steel Plate Shear Walls; conventional construction frames may also be designed which have no seismic detailing. The design of these systems is covered comprehensively in literature; however no guidance has been provided regarding the selection of the best system for a project. In this thesis, the relative merits of each of the prequalified systems have been studied. A five story office building located in Vancouver, British Columbia, was redesigned nine times implementing each of the clauses for seismic design in CSA S16-09. The relative performance of each are compared using the Performance Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) method. PBEE accounts for the uncertainties in the seismic hazard, structural response and structural damage and their effect on the building performance during an earthquake. The relative merits of these systems were evaluated in terms of material usage and financial loss of the structure after a seismic event. The conclusion is that although the Moment Resisting Frame carries the lowest repair costs, it uses 20% more steel than the Eccentrically Braced Frame. The optimum systems in terms of material usage and repair costs were the Steel Plate Shear Wall (type ductile) and the Eccentric Braced Frame. The worst performing were the buildings designed with low ductility; both the conventional construction and limited ductility Concentrically Braced Frame structures performed poorly. Analysis shows that under the conditions of this thesis, most of the repair costs are related to the acceleration sensitive nonstructural components. Systems designed with higher ductility experienced lower accelerations and therefore lower costs. The PBEE methodology is an effective approach for evaluating different structures and comparing how they perform dynamically in an earthquake. Using PBEE, this thesis shows the advantages of frames designed in Canada for high ductility in economic terms.
Evidence of non-mean-field-like low-temperature behavior in the Edwards-Anderson spin-glass model
Creators: name: Yucesoy, B.
name: Katzgraber, Helmut G.
name: Machta, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson and mean-field Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Ising spin glasses are studied via large-scale Monte Carlo simulations at low temperatures, deep within the spin-glass phase. Performing a careful statistical analysis of several thousand independent disorder realizations and using an observable that detects peaks in the overlap distribution, we show that the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick and Edwards-Anderson models have a distinctly different low-temperature behavior. The structure of the spin-glass overlap distribution for the Edwards-Anderson model suggests that its low-temperature phase has only a single pair of pure states.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Meet the invisible work force: women migrant nightworkersin Ireland
Creators: name: MacQuarie, Julius-Cezar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440107
subject: Social and cultural anthropology
classificationCode: 390107
subject: Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management)

description: Analysis: they play an important role in Ireland's food, accommodation and entertainment industries, but are undervalued and underpaid Women migrant nightworkers in food, accommodation and entertainment industries perform fundamental forms of work. Yet, they are invisible in plain sight, undervalued and underpaid. What does that tell us about the current state of nightwork in Ireland? Meet Eleonora. She is a 32-year-old woman, a former primary school teacher in South America, who moved to Ireland just over a year ago. She is working the nightshift as a security woman subcontracted to a fast-food chain.Read more...
title: Playgrounds: The Theatrical Landscape of Shakespeare's London and Lope de Vega's Madrid
Creators: name: Amelang, David J.
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2016

description: There has always been a high degree of interest in contextual and historical awareness of the situation in which the plays of Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists were conceived. The same can be said of the works of the playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age. In the last half-century or so, the quality of research and research tools has increased exponentially, and the picture we draw of these early modern playworlds is ever more detailed and colourful. And yet, the corrosive nature of time has left gaps in our canvas that a single-country corpus of documents and evidence may not allow us to fill. A comparative transnational approach, however, often provides researchers with the sought-after ways through which one can take the limits of investigation one step further. With this intention in mind, this thesis surveys the landscape of the theatrical culture of early modern London and Madrid, the two most comparable 'playgrounds' in Renaissance Europe. The impressive similarities in infrastructures, arrangements and production of these two theatrical capitals not only begs for an in-depth comparison between them, but also invites consideration of whether the knowledge of one 'playground' can help shed light on the obscurities of the other. The project is divided into four different topics: the city and the neighbourhoods in which the playhouses were built, the playhouses themselves and their physical and social attributes, the playmakers (dramatists, actors, managers and all those agents participating in the theatrical event) and the relationship between the theatre and the emerging print culture. Each topic or chapter provides a comparative survey of the theatre history developed for each country's theatrical cultures in the first sub-chapter, and in the second an example of how this newly acquired knowledge benefits the early modern English and Spanish literary critic alike. In particular, the thesis is geared toward explaining the fundamental differences between the theatrical landscapes of Shakespeare's London and Lope de Vega's Madrid: why there were no indoor commercial playhouses in Madrid like the Blackfriars theatre of the English capital, and why there was such a large quantitative difference in dramatic production between the playwrights of both nations.
Asteridiella leeicola Hansf., Sydowia
Creators: name: Natekar, Pratik D.
name: Patil, Anjali P.
name: Patil, Chandrahas R.
name: Bhise, Mahendra R.
name: Kambhar, Sidanand V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Capnodiales
Capnodiaceae
Asteridiella
Asteridiella leeicola

description: Asteridiella leeicola Hansf., Sydowia 11 (1–6): 48, 1958 (Fig. 1)
MycoBank number: 293069
Colonies epiphyllous, sub-dense, up to 2 mm in diameter. Hyphae flexuous to wavy, branching opposite at wide angles, closely to loosely reticulate; cells 20–30.5 × 5.5–7.5 µm. Appressoria alternate, lateral, antrorse, curved to straight, 15– 23 × 13–16.5 µm; stalk cells cuneate to cylindrical, 3.5–6 µm long; head cells ovate, globose to cylindrical, entire to angular, 11–17 × 13–16.5 µm. Phialides numerous, borne on a separate mycelial branch rarely mixed with appressoria, opposite to alternate, ampulliform, 15–23 × 7.5–9.5 µm. Perithecia few, scattered, up to 90 µm in diameter; ascospores cylindrical 4-septate, slightly constricted at septa, 30–34 × 9–16 µm.
Material examined:— INDIA. Maharashtra:Kharepatan,Sindhudurg, on living leaves of Leea indica,16°55’61.5” N, 73°62’83.7” E, 108 m, 6 December 2021, Pratik Dilip Natekar-5065, AMH-10597.
Known distribution:— Philippines and India.
Notes:— Asteridiella leeicola was previously only recorded on Leea sp. from Philippines (Hansford 1961). Based on the literature (Hansford 1961, Hosagoudar 1996, Hosagoudar & Agarwal 2008) the present collection on Leea indica is a new host record and this taxon is reported from India for the first time.
description: Published as part of Natekar, Pratik D., Patil, Anjali P., Patil, Chandrahas R., Bhise, Mahendra R. & Kambhar, Sidanand V., 2024, Two new records of Meliolaceous black mildew fungi from India, pp. 73-77 in Phytotaxa 641 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.641.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13213794
An intrinsic nonlinear scale governs oscillations in rapid fracture
Creators: name: Goldman, Tamar
name: Harpaz, Roi
name: Bouchbinder, Eran
name: Fineberg, Jay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When branching is suppressed, rapid cracks undergo a dynamic instability from a straight to an oscillatory path at a critical velocity $v_c$. In a systematic experimental study using a wide range of different brittle materials, we first show how the opening profiles of straight cracks scale with the size $\ell_{nl}$ of the nonlinear zone surrounding a crack's tip. We then show, for all materials tested, that $v_c$ is both a fixed fraction of the shear speed and, moreover, that the instability wavelength is proportional to $\ell_{nl}$. These findings directly verify recent theoretical predictions and suggest that the nonlinear zone is not passive, but rather is closely linked to rapid crack instabilities.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures + supplementary information
Conceitos e Inter-relações entre a Educação Permanente, Continuada e em Serviço com as práticas educativas: revisão de escopo
Creators: name: De Oliveira Biancamano Sevilha, Aline
name: De Lima Bessa Ballesteros, Beatriz
name: De Oliveira Do Nascimento, Claudia Bueno
name: Messias, Cláudia Maria
name: De Almeida, Yasmin Saba
name: Cortez, Elaine Antunes
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education
subject: Health and Physical Education
subject: Medical Education
subject: Interprofessional Education
subject: Education, Continuing
subject: Educação Continuada
subject: Educação Permanente
subject: Educação em Serviço
subject: Health Personnel
subject: Healthcare Workers
subject: In-Service Education
subject: Permanent Education
subject: Pessoal da Saúde
subject: Sistema Único de Saúde
subject: Trabalhadores da Saúde
subject: Unified Health System

description: English title: Concepts and Interrelationonships between Permanent, Continuing, and In-Service Education: scope review. Objectives: 1) Map the difference between the concepts of Permanent Education, Continuing Education and In-Service Education presented by health workers; 2) Analyze the interrelationships of the mapped concepts with the educational practices implemented in the services of the Unified Health System.
Career-Relationship Intersections for Emerging Adult Women in STEM: An Action Project Method Exploration
Creators: name: Warner, Lindsay
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: STEM
subject: career development
subject: romantic relationship
subject: emerging adult
subject: science, technology, engineering, mathematics
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education--Guidance and Counseling

description: Women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers, both in Canada and worldwide. Building on existing literature suggesting potential intersections between career development and romantic relationships, this study addressed the research question “How do emerging adult women in STEM education programs jointly pursue their career plans with their romantic partners?” The Action-Project Method (A-PM) was used to conduct interviews with six emerging adult couples from Western Canada, where there was a woman pursuing STEM-related university education. A consensus-based qualitative analysis strategy was applied both within and across cases, revealing that these couples were focused on projects (i.e., shared goals occurring over time) addressing: (a) the intersection of STEM career goals and other life goals commonly encountered during emerging adulthood and (b) career decision-making for the woman in STEM. Couples’ STEM-related conversations were characterized by high levels of self-disclosure, comfort with sharing their perspectives with each other and, for several couples, warm and collaborative conversational tones. Furthermore, partners provided a variety of supports for the women to persist in their STEM career paths. Additional emergent themes included: (a) experiencing various challenges with pursuing STEM career paths; (b) family of origin expectations in pursuing STEM; (c) the assumption that both members of the couple would be working in the long term; (d) attempting to achieve work-life balance; and (e) discussion of the purpose of work in a person’s life. These findings yielded several implications for counselling psychology practice.
Additional Massive Binaries in the Cygnus OB2 Association
Creators: name: Kiminki, Daniel C.
name: Kobulnicky, Henry A.
name: Ewing, Ian
name: Kiminki, Megan M. Bagley
name: Lundquist, Michael
name: Alexander, Michael
name: Vargas-Alvarez, Carlos
name: Choi, Heather
name: Henderson, Calen B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery and orbital solutions for two new OB binaries in the Cygnus OB2 Association, MT311 (B2V+B3V) and MT605 (B0.5V+B2.5:V). We also identify the system MT429 as a probable triple system consisting of a tight eclipsing 2.97 day B3V+B6V pair and a B0V at a projected separation of 138 AU. We further provide the first spectroscopic orbital solutions to the eclipsing, double-lined, O-star binary MT696 (O9.5V+B1:V), the double-lined, early B binary MT720 (B0-1V+B1-2V), and the double-lined, O-star binary MT771 (O7V+O9V). These systems exhibit orbital periods between 1.5 days and 12.3 days, with the majority having P<6 days. The two new binary discoveries and six spectroscopic solutions bring the total number of known massive binaries in the central region of the Cygnus OB2 Association to 20, with all but two having full orbital solutions.
description: 42 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, minor typos have been fixed
Strategic Operations and Planning of Stand-alone and Hybrid Energy Storage Facilities
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Shubhrajit
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Energy storage
subject: Renewable energy
subject: Electricity market
subject: Strategic behavior
subject: Bilevel programming
subject: Energy
subject: Engineering

description: Interest in energy storage integration in the wholesale electricity market has increased in recent years due to favorable market policies and technology cost reduction. As the electrical grid transitions to integrating clean energy resources that are predominantly renewables, energy storage can play an important role in reducing the non-performance penalty of these resources and provide several other value propositions. This thesis focuses on the strategic operations and planning of price-making stand-alone and hybrid energy storage facilities where hybrid storage facilities are defined as energy storage co-located with an intermittent generation. A price-making generation resource can influence the market price; therefore, this thesis examines the interaction of price-making stand-alone and hybrid storage resources with the wholesale market in order to maximize facility profit, outlines the impact on market efficiency and social welfare caused by the said participation. To this end, first, a self-interested stand-alone energy storage is modeled to reveal market design choices that can yield inefficiency in the presence of strategic behavior. The proposed model outlines storage behavior under two different offer and state-of-energy management strategies. The objective is to uncover potential perverse market outcomes that policymakers and market designers should be cognizant of when designing market rules for storage participation. The model is then modified and extended to investigate the strategic participation of intermittent and storage resources behind the same point of interconnection under two different configurations namely, co-located and integrated hybrid storage. The two proposed models examine the profit-maximizing behavior of the combined facilities and identify the operational constraints that separate the models in terms of operations and dispatch of the units. Finally, a planning model is proposed for a renewable-coupled storage facility to derive insights regarding the impact of market power and strategic price-making behavior on investment decisions in energy storage and transmission.
Remarks on gravitational interaction in Kaluza-Klein models
Creators: name: Eingorn, Maxim
name: Zhuk, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In these remarks, we clarify the problematic aspects of gravitational interaction in a weak-field limit of Kaluza-Klein models. We explain why some models meet the classical gravitational tests, while others do not. We show that variation of the total volume of the internal spaces generates the fifth force. This is the main reason of the problem. It happens for all considered models (linear with respect to the scalar curvature and nonlinear $f(R)$, with toroidal and spherical compactifications). We explicitly single out the contribution of the fifth force to nonrelativistic gravitational potentials. In the case of models with toroidal compactification, we demonstrate how tension (with and without effects of nonlinearity) of the gravitating source can fix the total volume of the internal space, resulting in the vanishing fifth force and consequently in agreement with the observations. It takes place for latent solitons, black strings and black branes. We also demonstrate a particular example where non-vanishing variations of the internal space volume do not contradict the gravitational experiments. In the case of spherical compactification, the fifth force is replaced by the Yukawa interaction for models with the stabilized internal space. For large Yukawa masses, the effect of this interaction is negligibly small, and considered models satisfy the gravitational tests at the same level of accuracy as general relativity.
description: 13 pages, no figures. Reference and appendix added
Accessing surface Brillouin zone and band structure of picene single crystals
Creators: name: Xin, Qian
name: Duhm, Steffen
name: Bussolotti, Fabio
name: Akaike, Kouki
name: Kubozono, Yoshihiro
name: Aoki, Hideo
name: Kosugi, Taichi
name: Kera, Satoshi
name: Ueno, Nobuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have experimentally revealed the band structure and the surface Brillouin zone of insulating picene single crystals (SCs), the mother organic system for a recently discovered aromatic superconductor, with ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) and low-energy electron diffraction with laser for photoconduction. A hole effective mass of 2.24 m_0 and the hole mobility mu_h >= 9.0 cm^2/Vs (298 K) were deduced in Gamma-Y direction. We have further shown that some picene SCs did not show charging during UPS even without the laser, which indicates that pristine UPS works for high-quality organic SCs.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226401 (2012)
Identifying Applications and Bottlenecks for Remote Sensing in Potato: Assessment of Colorado Potato Beetle Host Preference as a Case Study
Creators: name: Feldman, Max
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This is a presentation describing the findings of an AG2PI community survey and a remote sensing study aimed at quantifying Colorado potato beetle preference of 10 potato cultivars performed in 2020 and 2021. Seminar was given to the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Genomics and Phenomics working group on drone adoption and application of drone technology. Work was presented on November 21 2023.
title: Английский язык для геологических специальностей
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Профобразование
Year: 2021

description: В учебном пособии изложены основные сведения о строении, составе и истории Земли, о минералах и горных породах как продуктах геологических процессов. Даны термины на иностранном языке для геологических специальностей. Также в издании содержатся тесты для проверки знаний учащихся. Предназначено для изучения дисциплины «Иностранный язык (английский)» студентами укрупненной группы специальностей и профессий среднего профессионального образования 21.00.00 «Прикладная геология, горное дело, нефтегазовое дело и геодезия».