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B.C. Hydro is a major institutional force in extending and intensifying staples dependence
Creators: name: Froschauer, Karl
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Diversified industrial development was expected in British Columbia with the expansion of the public power supply. But B.C.Hydro, under the direction of the provincial government's industrial policy, produced an "unplanned surplus" of power and intensified British Columbia's dependence on natural resource processing (staples production). Four aspects of this problem are investigated: the provincial state's intervention in the development of hydro power, the use of the hydroelectric infrastructure to extend staples production, the planning for industrial power needs, and the surplus-induced intensification of staples dependence. Government, B.C.Hydro, and related documents reveal an increased intervention in the relationship between the supply of public hydro power and staples production (from 1945 to 1986). The first intervention emphasized building rural power plants and industrial electrification, the second, mega-dams and "industrialization-by-invitation," and the third, planning to build for export and surplus discounts to industry. Expanding the hydroelectric infrastructure became itself an industry which brought temporary regional, economic, and political benefits. During this period, the infrastructure provided access to natural resources and expanded staples production. B.C.Hydro and the provincial government were unable to plan industrial loads comprehensively, because of the unreliable commitments by staples producers. Nevertheless, the "surplus and debt-load shock" of the 1980s resulted in discounted electricity to staples producers and an increased dependence on the unstable U.S. electricity market. The explanatory framework of this thesis draws on staples theory (Innis, Watkins, Marchak) and Offe's theory of state intervention. This thesis is a contribution to understanding the repetition of the historical staples-dependent patterns which resurface in the interventions by the provincial state, as well as a de-mystification of the dreams that the development of public hydro power diversifies the industrial base.
Analisi sperimentale e numerica di sistemi di conversione dell'energia basati su celle a combustibile
Creators: name: Ferruzzi, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2010

description: L’elaborato di tesi ha come obiettivo l'analisi sperimentale e numerica di sistemi di conversione dell’energia basati su celle a combustibile.
In particolare, sono state effettuate in parallelo sperimentazioni su celle a combustibile ad ossidi solidi e a carbonati fusi, e sono stati realizzati modelli numerici di simulazione di sistemi di poligenerazione basati sull’impiego di celle a combustibile a membrana polimerica.
La cella a combustibile a carbonati fusi, realizzata dalla IPASS Scarl, presenta alcune particolarità costruttive, che analizzeremo in seguito, rispetto alle tradizionali celle, in particolare la sua geometria cilindrica. La potenza elettrica nominale della cella è di circa 1 kW. Il target principale della sperimentazione consiste nella valutazione del funzionamento della cella con alimentazione a biogas da discarica.
La cella ad ossidi solidi, fornita dalla ACUMENTRICS, è caratterizzata da una potenza nominale di 5 kW elettrici. Tale cella è stata equipaggiata di un modulo cogenerativo, che consente di poter recuperare dalla stessa energia termica. L'obiettivo dell’analisi è stato quello di valutare le prestazioni generali della cella, e in particolare nel funzionamento in assetto cogenerativo, simulando l’utilizzo dell'energia termica per il riscaldamento di una piccola utenza.
Per quanto riguarda le analisi di tipo numerico-simulativo, è stato sviluppato in ambiente TRNSYS un modello dinamico completo di un impianto di condizionamento a servizio di un edificio, basato sull'utilizzo di più fonti energetiche e di diverse tecnologie ad alta efficienza. In particolare, il sistema poligenerativo proposto è caratterizzato dalla presenza di celle a combustibile a membrana polimerica e pannelli solari termici ad alto rendimento. L’edificio considerato è un’utenza tipo univeristario.
Nella tesi verranno innanzitutto descritte le tecnologie oggetto delle attività sperimentali e numerico-simulative, e successivamente si presenteranno i principali risultati delle attività stesse.
Gli animali coinvolti negli interventi assistiti:
veicolo di malattia o salute?
Creators: name: Fontanella, Marzia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2013

description: Nell’ambito delle attività di ricerca, del triennio di dottorato, sono state condotte Attività e Terapie  assistite da animali in diverse centri,gli animali coinvolti negli interventi, sono stati regolarmente sottoposti a controlli sanitari di routine, che per gli animali d’affezione sono di competenza dei servizi veterinari dell’ASL e per gli equidi del medico veterinario aziendale ma essendo gli animali possibile veicolo di alcune zoonosi si è pensato che fosse opportuno sottoporre i cani, gli equidi e gli altri animali coinvolti anche ad uno screening per la ricerca di Salmonella spp., Campylobacter termotolleranti ed Escherichia coli enteropatogeni.
Il motivo di questo approfondimento è legato al fatto che durante gli interventi assistiti è tale il contatto fisico che si instaura tra fruitore ed  animale, da far presumere che realmente possa esistere un rischio zoonosico spesso sottostimato e non considerato. Infine, è opportuno sottolineare l’assenza di una normativa nazionale precisa e dettagliata che prenda in considerazione un qualunque tipo di protocollo sanitario ufficiale destinato agli animali coinvolti nella Pet Therapy. Inoltre, a questo proposito vi è un vuoto legislativo, poiché gli unici riferimenti legislativi sulle misure di sorveglianza delle zoonosi e degli agenti zoonotici, tra l’altro non rivolte agli animali coinvolti nelle attività di Pet Therapy, si riferiscono alla DIRETTIVA 2003/99/CE DEL PARLAMENTO EUROPEO E DEL CONSIGLIO del 17 novembre 2003.
Logica del senso. Storia, humanitas e giudizio nel pensiero di Eric Weil
Creators: name: Petrella, Antonello
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2013

description: La tesi di dottorato consiste in un lavoro di ricerca sul pensiero del filosofo franco-tedesco Eric Weil. In essa viene presa in esame particolarmente l' opera principale di Weil: la Logique de la philosophie del 1950; se ne analizzano connessioni con le varie parti del sistema e con i modelli teoretici che ne influenzano obiettivi e finalità. Lo studio si concentra sull'importanza del giudizio all'interno di una logica filosofica che si sforza di tenere insieme universale e particolare, senso e fatto, attraverso una pratica aperta della filosofia che ha come punto centrale l'uomo nella sua storicità. Per cui, Humanitas e concezione della storia sono gli elementi che agiscono alla base di quella che può definirsi una "logica del senso".
Robustness Evaluation of Software Systems through Fault Injection
Creators: name: Di Leo, Domenico
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2013

description: Over the last decades, software has been introduced in desperate safety domains, such as automotive, avionics and railways, just to name a few. For these domains, software is demanded to be highly robust to hardware faults and software faults since its failure may endanger human life, harm the environment, or cause economical loss. Fault injection, the deliberate inoculation of faults, is a powerful means
to assess the robustness of software components that goes far beyond traditional testing techniques. Fault Injection encompasses several techniques, among them robustness testing and software implemented fault injection, which emulate software faults and hardware faults, respectively.
Despite the intensive use of these techniques, their application is still costly. This thesis focuses on robustness testing and software implemented fault
injection, for both analyzes the �effect of workload on the experiment outcomes. Furthermore, the thesis suggests approaches to make the fault injection techniques more cost-effective by leveraging on the workload.
Neurophysiological and neuropsychological parameters in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy
Creators: name: Gangemi, Antonio
name: Picciotto, Giulia
name: Mento, Carmela
name: Cardile, Silvia
name: Fabio, Rosa Angela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common type of localization-related epilepsy (LRE) and has been extensively studied in the field of neuropsychology due to its significant association with cognitive impairments. Cognitive decline has long been recognized as a consequence of this form of epilepsy, with previous studies primarily focusing on neurophysiological measures. In this study, both neurophysiological and neuropsychological factors were analyzed in TLE patients compared to healthy control subjects. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) tests were used to assess neuropsychological processes, while cognitive event-related potential (ERPs), particularly P300, were employed to analyze neurophysiological parameters. The study involved 21 TLE patients (mean age = 61.43) and 21 healthy control subjects. The results revealing that TLE patients scored significantly lower, indicating deficits in specific cognitive areas. The study also observed abnormalities in the ERPs, particularly in the assessment of P300 amplitude and latency, that may be indicative of underlying neural dysfunction related to attention and cognitive processing. In conclusion, the study provides compelling evidence of the association between TLE and a high incidence of cognitive deficits and decline. By considering both neurophysiological and neuropsychological factors, the study sheds light on the comprehensive impact of TLE on various cognitive domains and emphasizes the importance of early identification and management of cognitive impairments in TLE patients.
Confronto tra Prostate Health Index (PHI) e Prostate Cancer Antigen3(PCA3 )in pazienti sottoposti a prima biopsia prostatica.
Creators: name: Ferro, Matteo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2013

description: Obiettivo  di questo studio è stato quello di confrontare la capacità dell’ Indice PHI di Beckman Coulter e del PCA3 score  nel discriminare tra soggetti con PCa e soggetti con patologie prostatiche benigne.La %p2PSA, PHI e il PCA3 Score presentano la capacità di predire un risultato positivo della prima biopsia, che risulta maggiore di quella del %fPSA. A differenza del %fPSA, %p2PSA e phi, un elevato PCA3 score non risulta utile nel discriminare le lesioni preneoplastiche dal cancro, ma solo le lesioni preneoplastiche da quelle benigne. Essi inoltre presentano la possibilità di individuare neoplasie prostatiche ad alto grado.
Outflows and the Physical Properties of Quasars
Creators: name: Ganguly, Rajib
name: Brotherton, Michael S.
name: Cales, Sabrina
name: Scoggins, Brian
name: Shang, Zhaohui
name: Vestergaard, Marianne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated a sample of 5088 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Second Data Release in order to determine how the frequency and properties of broad absorptions lines (BALs) depend on black hole mass, bolometric luminosity, Eddington fraction (L/L_Edd), and spectral slope. We focus only on high-ionization BALs and find a number of significant results. While quasars accreting near the Eddington limit are more likely to show BALs than lower $L/L_{Edd}$ systems, BALs are present in quasars accreting at only a few percent Eddington. We find a stronger effect with bolometric luminosity, such that the most luminous quasars are more likely to show BALs. There is an additional effect, previously known, that BAL quasars are redder on average than unabsorbed quasars. The strongest effects involving the quasar physical properties and BAL properties are related to terminal outflow velocity. Maximum observed outflow velocities increase with both the bolometric luminosity and the blueness of the spectral slope, suggesting that the ultraviolet luminosity to a great extent determines the acceleration. These results support the idea of outflow acceleration via ultraviolet line scattering.
description: Uses emulateapj.cls, 14 pages including 7 tables and 7 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, Unabridged version of Table 4 can be downloaded from http://physics.uwyo.edu/agn/
Breaking Rabies Boundaries: Merging Scientific Insights with Practical  Safety Measures
Creators: name: Gurleen Sandhu, Randhir Singh and Deepali G. Kalambhe
Publisher: name: Bio Vet Innovator Magazine
Year: 2024

description: Rabies remains a significant health challenge, claiming thousands of lives annually predominantly in Asia and Africa. The disease caused by Lyssa virus can infect all mammals with mild symptoms initially but progresses to a severe encephalitis and death after onset of symptoms. Transmitted mostly by bites and scratches from infected dogs, rabies is a preventable disease with effective vaccination and community awareness strategies. This article highlights the critical need for community education, timely medical interventions, and public health policies to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and its practical applicability in combating the disease. Preventive measures include vaccination of pets, stray animals, and individuals at high risk, along with immediate post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). PEP involves thorough wound cleansing and a vaccination regimen based on the severity of exposure. Collaborative efforts among healthcare workers, policymakers, and communities are essential to achieve the World Health Organization's goal of “Zero human rabies deaths by 2030.” By enhancing awareness and implementing comprehensive strategies, we can work towards a future free from rabies, ultimately transforming public health and safeguarding vulnerable populations.
Proton image and momentum distributions from light-front dynamics
Creators: name: Ydrefors, Emanuel
name: Frederico, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a dynamical three-constituent quark light-front model to study the proton. The dynamics is based on the notion of a diquark (bound or virtual) as the dominant interaction channel, which paramaterizes a contact interaction between the quarks in order to build the three-body Faddeev Bethe-Salpeter equations for the valence state, and we focus on the totally symmetric part of the wave function. The Dirac electromagnetic form factor is used to fix the model parameters, and the valence wave function is obtained. From that we investigate its Ioffe-time image, non-polarized longitudinal and transverse momentum distributions, and the double momentum distribution.
description: 17 pages
I giovani e il loro apporto in capitale umano nella conduzione delle aziende agricole: evidenze sul caso italiano
Creators: name: Carillo, Felicetta
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2013

description: L’obiettivo principale della tesi è stato quello di indagare sulla capacità del settore agricolo italiano di intraprendere processi innovativi e sulla capacità imprenditoriale di attivare processi moltiplicativi di sviluppo locale, evidenziando il ruolo delle politiche.
In particolare, si è indagato sulla capacità delle imprese di aumentare la produttività ed essere competitive, assecondando le nuove tendenze di mercato. Pertanto lo studio empirico, condotto su un campione rappresentativo delle aziende agricole italiane, è stato focalizzato sulla relazione tra accumulazione di capitale umano in agricoltura ed il miglioramento della performance aziendale. I risultati dell’analisi mostrano nessi causali positivi, confermando il significativo apporto dei giovani per lo sviluppo e l’innovazione dell’azienda agricola. Tale relazione rimane positiva anche quando si “controlla” per una probabile endogeneità dell’età rispetto alla dimensione economica aziendale. Difatti, con l’utilizzo di uno stimatore a due stadi (2SLS)  e con il ricorso a variabili strumentali (IV regression), è stato possibile verificare la presenza di una “causalità inversa”, determinata dal fatto che aziende più performanti incentivano i giovani ad entrare nel business agricolo. Inoltre, attraverso l’uso di misure alternative di performance aziendale e indagando all’interno dei diversi comparti produttivi agricoli, si è avuta conferma del fatto che il cambiamento indotto dai giovani è visibile in quasi tutte le funzioni aziendali: nelle dimensioni fisiche, nel il mix colturale e, soprattutto, nei confini delle attività produttive e nei rapporti con il mercato finale.
Inoltre, poiché la performance economica dell’azienda agricola può dipendere anche dalla modalità attraverso la quale il rinnovamento della classe imprenditoriale si realizza, un’ulteriore analisi è stata condotta sul processo di trasmissione dell’impresa agricola. Dallo studio di tale fenomeno è emerso come la modalità attraverso cui si realizza il ricambio generazionale in agricoltura incide sulla performance che le aziende riescono a realizzare, mostrando una minore prestazione economica delle imprese il cui processo di insediamento avviene all’interno della famiglia agricola.
Entropy production in quantium brownian motion
Creators: name: Pucci, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2013

description: I investigate how to coherently define entropy production for a process of transient relaxation in the Quantum Brownian Motion model
for the harmonic potential. I compare a form, called ``Poised" (P), which after non-Markovian transients corresponds to a definition
 of heat as the change in the system  Hamiltonian of mean force, with a recent proposal by Esposito et al (ELB) based on
 a definition of heat as the energy change in the bath. Both expressions yield a positive-defined entropy production and coincide for
 vanishing coupling strength, but their difference is proved to be always positive (after non-Markovian transients disappear) and to grow
 as the coupling strength increases. In the classical over-damped limit the ``Poised" entropy production converges to the entropy production
 used in stochastic thermodynamics. We also investigate the effects of the system size, and of the ensuing Poincaré recurrences, and how the
classical limit is approached. I close by discussing the strong-coupling limit, in which the ideal canonical equilibrium of the bath is violated.
1490701872.pdf
Creators: name: Mochammad Ridwan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150199 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This study gathers empirical evidence on the influence of organizational commitment and knowledge of accounting managers on successful implementation of accounting information systems (AIS). This study was conducted using a survey of 33 state-owned enterprises in West Java, Indonesia. Samples were obtained using simple random sampling method. Data were collected using questionnaires. The validity and reliability of data were tested prior to hypotheses testing. Data analysis for hypothesis testing adopted partial least squares regression. Results indicate that organizational commitment and the knowledge of managers significantly affect the successful implementation of AIS. AIS can be successfully implemented in state-owned enterprises if managers of accounting departments have high levels of organizational commitment. The knowledge level of managers also play an important role in the successful implementation of AIS. Thus, AIS can be successfully implemented by optimizing organizational commitment and increasing the knowledge of managers.
Association of rs4784227-CASC16 (LOC643714 locus) and rs4782447-ACSF3 polymorphisms and their association with breast cancer risk among Iranian population
Creators: name: Tajbakhsh, Amir
name: Farjami, Zahra
name: Darroudi, Susan
name: Ayati, Seyed Hasan
name: Vakili, Fatemeh
name: Asghari, Mahla
name: Alimardani, Maliheh
name: Abedini, Soheila
name: Kushyar, Mohammad Mahdi
name: Pasdar, Alireza
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: chromatin remodelling
carcinoma
genetic variation
epidemiology
enhancer element

description: TOX3 and FOXA1 proteins are believed to be involved in the susceptibility of breast cancer. rs4784227-CASC16 and rs4782447-ACSF3, as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), located at the 16q may affect the FOXA1 DNA binding sequence change and therefore may enhance the FOXA1-binding affinity to the promoter of TOX3 gene. This study aimed to investigate the association of these SNPs/haplotypes with breast cancer susceptibility in an Iranian population. We conducted a case-control study of 1072 blood samples (505 breast cancer patients and 567 controls). Genotyping of rs4784227-CASC16 and rs4782447-ACSF3 SNPs was carried out by ARMS-PCR. Moreover, statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 20.0 (IBM Inc., Chicago, IL, USA), PHASE v 2.1 and SNP analyser 2.0. There was a strongly significant statistical association between alleles and genotypes of rs4784227-CASC16 with breast cancer risk in our study population (p<0.05). Moreover, a significant association was demonstrated between TA haplotype and breast cancer risk (OR=0.78; 95% CI (0.62-0.96); P-value=0.025). In this respect, although we did not observe a statistically significant association between rs4782447-ACSF3 with breast cancer susceptibility, the combination of the effects of rs4784227-CASC16 and rs4782447-ACSF3 SNPs may also affect the risk. This is in line with other studies suggesting these SNPs as risk-associated polymorphisms which may lead to a change in the affinity of FOXA1, as a distal enhancer, to TOX3 and thus change in TOX3 expression, which can eventually affect the risk of breast cancer.
description: EXCLI Journal; 18:Doc429; ISSN 1611-2156
Composition of Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres from Meteorite Outgassing Experiments
Creators: name: Thompson, Maggie A.
name: Telus, Myriam
name: Schaefer, Laura
name: Fortney, Jonathan J.
name: Joshi, Toyanath
name: Lederman, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Terrestrial exoplanets likely form initial atmospheres through outgassing during and after accretion, although there is currently no first-principles understanding of how to connect a planet's bulk composition to its early atmospheric properties. Important insights into this connection can be gained by assaying meteorites, representative samples of planetary building blocks. We perform laboratory outgassing experiments that use a mass spectrometer to measure the abundances of volatiles released when meteorite samples are heated to 1200 $^{\circ}$C. We find that outgassing from three carbonaceous chondrite samples consistently produce H$_2$O-rich (averaged ~66 %) atmospheres but with significant amounts of CO (~18 %) and CO$_2$ (~15 %) as well as smaller quantities of H$_2$ and H$_2$S (up to 1 %). These results provide experimental constraints on the initial chemical composition in theoretical models of terrestrial planet atmospheres, supplying abundances for principal gas species as a function of temperature.
description: 42 pages, 9 Figures, 2 Tables, 4 Supplementary Figures, 3 Supplementary Tables, published in Nature Astronomy (2021)
The status of the KSS bound and its possible violations (How perfect can a fluid be?)
Creators: name: Dobado, Antonio
name: Llanes-Estrada, Felipe J.
name: Rincon, Juan Miguel Torres
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we briefly review the Kovtun-Son-Starinet (KSS) computation of the ratio eta/s for quantum field theories with gravitational dual and the related conjecture that it is bound from below by 1/(4 pi). We discuss the validity of the bound and the nature of its possible violations, its relevance for RHIC, its connection with phase transitions and other related issues.
description: 10 pages, 5figs, Invited talk at "10 years of AdS/CFT Correspondence", Buenos Aires, Dec. 2007, honoring Juan Maldacena
On the nature of exotic matter in Morris-Thorne wormholes
Creators: name: Kuhfittig, Peter K. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that phantom energy, which is characterized by the equation of state $p=ωρ$, $ω
description: 6 pages, no figures
The marching rule : a Christian revolution in the Solomon Islands
Creators: name: Fulbright, Timothy Calhoun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis reconsiders, in the light of new evidence recently made available, the socio-political movements subsumed as 'Marching Rule' that occurred in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate during the period 1939-53. Part I, historical, considers the development of these movements. The need for an indigenous political institution by means of which the differences between governed and governors might be resolved was first articulated by an Anglican missionary, Rev. Fall owes. He taught a new model for self-rule, and his ideas and inspiration were widely propagated through the central Solomons. World War II introduced a period of liminality in which local rivalries were submerged in new unities. The American servicemen legitimated a model of representative government, and inspired new religious and organizational ideas. Islanders then elaborated new governmental institutions within a global model of third-world development, bounded by Roosevelt' Four Freedoms, the ideology of Social Gospel ism and the ideal of reconciling pagan/Christian differences under 'Christian Kastom.' Part II, ethnographical, considers Malaitan Christianity, traditional leadership and fol1owership, and the impact of new kinds of leadership growing out of mission organization or imposed by the colonial government. The South Sea Evangelical Mission policy of complete indigenization required converts to wholly abandon former ways. The mission provided literacy, a key to a variety of modernizations the Bible, a complete 'handbook for living'; and the notion of an incipient social institution, a community of God that was expressed mystically but which was to be created on earth in advance of the millennium. Part III draws together these themes, considering key indigenous Marching Rule documents in a semiotic analysis. The war was interpreted as the end of the old dispensation, the Americans as bringing a new world order. The social program is addressed as a logos, and the new image of a moral man, the Christian American serviceman, emerges as the ethos of the movement. Its emotional foundation, pathos was based on ethnicity and masinoa. brotherhood, which was also the weakness of the Marching Rule. Rather than the form of 'irrational' Cargoism imputed by the administration of the time, Marching Rule emerges as a Christian revolution aimed not to forcibly overthrow the colonial administration, but at the creation of a means of talking with it and converting it to something new.
Russian Poetic Translation on the Pages of the Magazine «Delo»: Bibliography
Creators: name: Zhatkin, Dmitry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470599
subject: Literary studies not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 470514
subject: Literary theory
classificationCode: 470507
subject: Comparative and transnational literature

description: The article is devoted to the consideration of the place of poetic translation in the ideological concept and structure of the magazine « Delo » (1866–1888), one of the most important radical democratic publications of the second half of the 19th century. The appendix to the article provides a complete bibliography of Russian translations, as well as poems «on the motif» of works of Western European literature published in the magazine «Delo».
Mechanical response of active gels
Creators: name: Liverpool, T. B.
name: Marchetti, M. C.
name: Joanny, J. -F.
name: Prost, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a model of an active gel of cross-linked semiflexible filaments with additional active linkers such as myosin II clusters. We show that the coupling of the elasticity of the semiflexible filaments to the mechanical properties of the motors leads to contractile behavior of the gel, in qualitative agreement with experimental observations. The motors, however, soften the zero frequency elastic constant of the gel. When the collective motor dynamics is incorporated in the model, a stiffening of the network at high frequencies is obtained. The frequency controlling the crossover between low and high frequency network elasticity is estimated in terms of microscopic properties of motors and filaments, and can be as low as 10^(-3)Hz.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Aphropsylla Jordan 1932
Creators: name: Hastriter, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Siphonaptera
Pulicidae
Aphropsylla

description: Aphropsylla Jordan, 1932 (Figs. 1-18) Type species. Aphropsylla conversus Jordan. Novitates Zoologicae, 1932:292-293. Aphropsylla species were originally placed in the genus Ctenocephalus Kolenati (now Ctenocephalides Stiles and Collins) until Jordan (1932) noted the generic distinction in the two genera by the position of the genal comb relative to the oral angle of the frons. Only three species of Aphropsylla occur in a limited region of east Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda).
description: Published as part of Hastriter, Michael, 2009, A description of four new species of fleas (Insecta, Siphonaptera) from Angola, Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea, and Peru, pp. 39-61 in ZooKeys 8 (8) on page 40, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.8.82, http://zenodo.org/record/576443
description: {"references": ["Jordan K (1932) Notes on Siphonaptera. Novitates Zoologicae, 38: 291 - 294."]}
Generating Dark Matter Halo Merger Trees
Creators: name: Parkinson, Hannah
name: Cole, Shaun
name: Helly, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new Monte-Carlo algorithm to generate merger trees describing the formation history of dark matter halos. The algorithm is a modification of the algorithm of Cole et al (2000) used in the GALFORM semi-analytic galaxy formation model. As such, it is based on the Extended Press-Schechter theory and so should be applicable to hierarchical models with a wide range of power spectra and cosmological models. It is tuned to be in accurate agreement with the conditional mass functions found in the analysis of merger trees extracted from the LCDM Millennium N-body simulation. We present a comparison of its predictions not only with these conditional mass functions, but also with additional statistics of the Millennium Simulation halo merger histories. In all cases we find it to be in good agreement with the Millennium Simulation and thus it should prove to be a very useful tool for semi-analytic models of galaxy formation and for modelling hierarchical structure formation in general. We have made our merger tree generation code and code to navigate the trees available at http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/~cole/merger_trees .
description: We thank Yu Lu for spotting errors in the appendix and helping identify an error in the coded algorithm. The (online) code and typos have been corrected. The fits and plots in the paper have been redone and match the (in press) MNRAS version
Numerical evaluation of the upper critical dimension of percolation in scale-free networks
Creators: name: Wu, Zhenhua
name: Lagorio, Cecilia
name: Braunstein, Lidia A.
name: Cohen, Reuven
name: Havlin, Shlomo
name: Stanley, H. Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a numerical method to evaluate the upper critical dimension $d_c$ of random percolation clusters in Erdős-Rényi networks and in scale-free networks with degree distribution ${\cal P}(k) \sim k^{-λ}$, where $k$ is the degree of a node and $λ$ is the broadness of the degree distribution. Our results report the theoretical prediction, $d_c = 2(λ- 1)/(λ- 3)$ for scale-free networks with $3 < λ< 4$ and $d_c = 6$ for Erdős-Rényi networks and scale-free networks with $λ> 4$. When the removal of nodes is not random but targeted on removing the highest degree nodes we obtain $d_c = 6$ for all $λ> 2$. Our method also yields a better numerical evaluation of the critical percolation threshold, $p_c$, for scale-free networks. Our results suggest that the finite size effects increases when $λ$ approaches 3 from above.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Leaving community college : do uncertain and misaligned expectations predict student departure?
Creators: name: Veron, Rachel Clare
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Community college
Dropout
Aligned ambitions

description: American youth with aligned ambitions before college – clear occupational goals and complementary educational plans – are more likely to matriculate to college, to complete college, and to earn higher wages. Of policy interest is whether students with uncertain or misaligned expectations at the beginning of college are set up to fail or to embark on pathways through the American higher education and workforce system that unnecessarily increase the duration or cost of schooling. Extending Schneider & Stevenson’s 1999 aligned ambitions framework to the concept of student departure, this study tests five potential dimensions for expectations misalignment and uncertainty among beginning two-year college students: aligned ambitions (complementary occupational and educational goals) at the degree level, aligned ambitions at the instructional program level, aligned wage expectations, aligned high school and college ability assessments, and aligned occupational goals and market opportunities. I find that the prevalence of dropout from higher education three years after beginning college among students who began undergraduate studies at two-year colleges was one in four in a recent survey of beginning college students. I find substantive student expectation misalignment and uncertainty along the five dimensions considered. Results suggest that misaligned educational expectations, wage expectations, and ability assessments between high school and college predict departure. Findings support a reconceptualization of American students, families, schools, governments, and markets as co-producers of student success outcomes in two-year colleges with specific considerations for higher education policymakers and the research community
Waiting-times statistics in boundary driven free fermion chains
Creators: name: Landi, Gabriel T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the waiting-time distributions (WTDs) of quantum chains coupled to two Lindblad baths at each end. Our focus is on free fermion chains, where we derive closed-form expressions in terms of single-particle matrices, allowing one to study arbitrarily large chain sizes. In doing so, we also derive formulas for 2-point correlation functions involving non-Hermitian propagators.
Aphropsylla
Creators: name: Hastriter, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Siphonaptera
Pulicidae
Aphropsylla

description: Key to species of Aphropsylla 1 Males.......................................................................................................... 2 – Females (unknown for A. wollastoni)........................................................... 4 2 Apex of P1 rounded, not truncate. Length of P1 greater than 2.5 times its widest dimension (Figs. 8, 9)...................................................................... 3 – Apex of P1 greatly expanded and truncate. Length of P1 less than 1.5 times its widest dimension (Fig. 7)............................................  A. truncata, sp. n. 3 Genal comb usually with six or seven ctenidia (Fig. 3)....................................................................................  A. conversa (Jordan & Rothschild, 1913) – Genal comb with 10 or 11 ctenidia (Fig. 4)..................................................................................................................  A. wollastoni (Rothschild, 1908) 4 First genal tooth (cephalad) nearly as long as adjacent tooth. Ventral anal lobe rounded at apex and setae restricted to apical third. Tergum eight with distinct sinus subtended by group of setae (Fig. 11). Second segment of labial palpus longer than proximal segment..............................................................................................................  A. conversa (Jordan & Rothschild, 1913) – First genal tooth <1/2 the length of adjacent tooth. Ventral anal lobe oblique at apex and setae covering apical half. Tergum eight without sinus, but rounded with sinuate margin (Fig. 10). Second segment of labial palpus equal in length to proximal segment.........................................  A. truncata, sp. n.
description: Published as part of Hastriter, Michael, 2009, A description of four new species of fleas (Insecta, Siphonaptera) from Angola, Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea, and Peru, pp. 39-61 in ZooKeys 8 (8) on pages 40-42, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.8.82, http://zenodo.org/record/576443
description: {"references": ["Jordan K, Rothschild NC (1913) Siphonaptera collected by Mr. Robin Kemp in tropical Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 528 - 581.", "Rothschild NC (1908) Notes on a collection of Siphonaptera from the Ruwenzori, Uganda. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 44: 76 - 79."]}
Pressure-induced volume-collapsed tetragonal phase of CaFe2As2 as seen via neutron scattering
Creators: name: Kreyssig, A.
name: Green, M. A.
name: Lee, Y.
name: Samolyuk, G. D.
name: Zajdel, P.
name: Lynn, J. W.
name: Bud'ko, S. L.
name: Torikachvili, M. S.
name: Ni, N.
name: Nandi, S.
name: Leao, J.
name: Poulton, S. J.
name: Argyriou, D. N.
name: Harmon, B. N.
name: Canfield, P. C.
name: McQueeney, R. J.
name: Goldman, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent investigations of the superconducting iron-arsenide families have highlighted the role of pressure, be it chemical or mechanical, in fostering superconductivity. Here we report that CaFe2As2 undergoes a pressure-induced transition to a non-magnetic, volume "collapsed" tetragonal phase, which becomes superconducting at lower temperature. Spin-polarized total-energy calculations on the collapsed structure reveal that the magnetic Fe moment itself collapses, consistent with the absence of magnetic order in neutron diffraction.
description: accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Influências da composição e estrutura da paisagem sobre a qualidade da água em múltiplas extensões temporais e espaciais na unidade hidrológica do rio Doce em Minas Gerais
Creators: name: Santos, João Pedro dos
name: Macedo, Diego Rodrigues
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: A degradação de ambientes aquáticos promove a contaminação das águas implicando em piora na qualidade dos ecossistemas. A bacia do rio Doce possui um histórico de degradação ambiental, principalmente com a expansão industrial e a agropecuária intensiva. Ademais, em 2015, a barragem de rejeito de Fundão (Samarco, BHP Billiton e Vale) se rompeu lançando rejeitos de minério sobre os cursos d’água da bacia, alterando abruptamente seu contexto socioambiental e se tornando um dos maiores desastres ambientais da história brasileira. O objetivo desse estudo foi analisar a relação entre características da paisagem e a qualidade da água na porção mineira da bacia do rio Doce a partir de diferentes extensões espaciais. Para isso, foram analisados modelos estatísticos que mostraram a relação entre parâmetros da qualidade da água e o uso e cobertura da terra e métricas de paisagem para os anos de 2008, 2013 e 2018. Foram utilizadas três extensões espaciais: subbacia, que corresponde a toda área de drenagem a montante do ponto de monitoramento; ripária, que corresponde a uma zona tampão de 200 m para cada lado do curso d’água a montante do ponto de monitoramento; e local que corresponde uma zona tampão de 200 m para cada lado do curso d’água a montante do ponto de monitoramento dentro de um raio de 2 km. Os parâmetros utilizados correspondem ao monitoramento dos períodos chuvoso e seco em 64 estações, sendo eles: nitrato, sólidos totais e turbidez. A relação entre as variáveis foi avaliada por meio da regressão linear múltipla que permitiu construir e selecionar os modelos com os melhores ajustes e identificar as variáveis que possuíram os maiores pesos sobre os modelos. Os modelos que apresentaram a melhor capacidade explicativa foram da extensão espacial subbacia (R.aj = 0,20-0,57; mediana: R.aj = 0,35) e ripária (R.aj = 0,23-0,48; mediana: R.aj = 0,39), em detrimento da extensão local (R.aj= 0,07-0,47; mediana: R.aj = 0,23). Atividades humanas como a agropecuária, a urbanização, o plantio de eucalipto e a mineração foram associadas com a piora na qualidade da água em todas as extensões analisadas. De modo oposto, a presença de manchas de vegetação natural demonstrou funcionar como controladoras da qualidade da água. O estudo reforça a necessidade urgente de se conter o desmatamento e a degradação nas áreas próximas dos cursos d’água e de toda a bacia hidrográfica.
GRB 070311: a direct link between the prompt emission and the afterglow
Creators: name: Guidorzi, C.
name: Vergani, S. D.
name: Sazonov, S.
name: Covino, S.
name: Malesani, D.
name: Molkov, S.
name: Palazzi, E.
name: Romano, P.
name: Campana, S.
name: Chincarini, G.
name: Fugazza, D.
name: Moretti, A.
name: Tagliaferri, G.
name: Llorente, A.
name: Gorosabel, J.
name: Antonelli, L. A.
name: Capalbi, M.
name: Cusumano, G.
name: D'Avanzo, P.
name: Mangano, V.
name: Masetti, N.
name: Meurs, E.
name: Mineo, T.
name: Molinari, E.
name: Morris, D. C.
name: Nicastro, L.
name: Page, K. L.
name: Perri, M.
name: Sbarufatti, B.
name: Stratta, G.
name: Sunyaev, R.
name: Troja, E.
name: Zerbi, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present prompt gamma-ray, early NIR/optical, late optical and X-ray observations of the peculiar GRB 070311 discovered by INTEGRAL, in order to gain clues on the mechanisms responsible for the prompt gamma-ray pulse as well as for the early and late multi-band afterglow of GRB 070311. We fitted with empirical functions the gamma-ray and optical light curves and scaled the result to the late time X-rays. The H-band light curve taken by REM shows two pulses peaking 80 and 140 s after the peak of the gamma-ray burst and possibly accompanied by a faint gamma-ray tail. Remarkably, the late optical and X-ray afterglow underwent a major rebrightening between 3x10^4 and 2x10^5 s after the burst with an X-ray fluence comparable with that of the prompt emission extrapolated in the same band. Notably, the time profile of the late rebrightening can be described as the combination of a time-rescaled version of the prompt gamma-ray pulse and an underlying power law. This result supports a common origin for both prompt and late X-ray/optical afterglow rebrightening of GRB 070311 within the external shock scenario. The main fireball would be responsible for the prompt emission, while a second shell would produce the rebrightening when impacting the leading blastwave in a refreshed shock (abridged).
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables, accepted to A&A
Dimensionality and dynamics in the behavior of C. elegans
Creators: name: Stephens, Greg J
name: Johnson-Kerner, Bethany
name: Bialek, William
name: Ryu, William S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A major challenge in analyzing animal behavior is to discover some underlying simplicity in complex motor actions. Here we show that the space of shapes adopted by the nematode C. elegans is surprisingly low dimensional, with just four dimensions accounting for 95% of the shape variance, and we partially reconstruct "equations of motion" for the dynamics in this space. These dynamics have multiple attractors, and we find that the worm visits these in a rapid and almost completely deterministic response to weak thermal stimuli. Stimulus-dependent correlations among the different modes suggest that one can generate more reliable behaviors by synchronizing stimuli to the state of the worm in shape space. We confirm this prediction, effectively "steering" the worm in real time.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, minor corrections
Library Award for Undergraduate Research: Increasing the Library Profile
Creators: name: Tchangalova, Nedelina
name: Cossard, Patricia Kosco
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2014
Subjects: library award
undergraduate research
institutional repository
information literacy
academic libraries

description: Offering a library award program is an effective way of strengthening the ties between subject librarians and teaching faculty, while providing a mechanism to preserve undergraduate student research. This program not only increases the perceived value of library services but also promotes librarians’ expertise as educators and instructors. This case study of implementing such a program at the University of Maryland College Park reviews library award models across the United States and Canada identifying best practices so that others may draw success from the authors’ experience and effective promotional efforts. The authors also hope to provide ideas for improvement and further award development for those with an award program in place.